大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 put the boot in


释义：

put the boot in （橄榄球）做危险动作;
（在对方已倒地后）再踢上一脚，做出不必要的残酷行为;
采取果断行动

例句：



I'll put the luggage in the boot.

我去把行李放进行李箱里。



EU's internal-market commissioner, who put the boot in.


"People get into such difficulties with City institutions - they're laced with people with degrees of power, stuck in these huge companies, who can really mess your life up if they decide you're a stupid poof and want to put the boot in, " he says.


The political connections that earned Goldman the sobriquet Government Sachs have been loosened by the crisis. (Jon Corzine, pictured right above, who was appointed Goldman's CEO in 1994, was for a while governor of New Jersey and his successor, Henry Paulson, left, went on to become President George Bush's treasury secretary.) A press that once put Goldman on a pedestal prefers today to put the boot in.