out for the count
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A winner in the ring - but out for the count - super-fit boxer Cara Owen was left clinging on to life.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2021
"I was out for the count," he says.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2019
When the parent thinks it’s time to get up to go to school, the teenager’s body clock is still out for the count.
From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2015
“Let's see it,” whispered Lucy when at last they were certain the boy was out for the count.
From Nature • Jul. 8, 2014
The establishment was pretty trashed, and there were forty humans out for the count.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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