lose out to not win or get something that would be an advantage to you,
because someone else gets it instead:
Tierney lost out to Joan Crawford at the Oscars.
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ATP WORLD TOUR FINALS,錦織選手,残念ながら,ラウンドロビンで敗退。
フェデラーvs錦織戦はノックアウトラウンド方式のトーナメントでは味わえない
独特の雰囲気で,浮き沈みの激しいフルセットマッチでした。ジョコビッチ選手が
準決勝第2試合でフェデラーと対戦するのは,マレー選手orバブリンカ選手,どちらなのか?
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ラジオ英会話 (November 20, 2015)
not know the first thing about sth to not know anything about a subject, or
not know how to do something:
My dad doesn't know the first thing about sports.
do sth like mad informal to do something as quickly or as well as you can:
I ran like mad to catch up to his car.
like crazy very much or very quickly: We ran like crazy to the bus stop.
These mosquito bites are itching like crazy.
take sth <-> on to start doing some difficult work or to start being responsible
for something important: I've taken on far too much work lately.
to a tee perfectly: The beef was cooked to a tee.
(from Cambridge Idioms Dictionary)
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