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
“Let's see it,” whispered Lucy when at last they were certain the boy was out for the count.
From Nature • Jul. 8, 2014
Brenda has left him, saying gnomically that she has different dreams, and Tom is out for the count.
From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2013
And there she was, the huge figure of the Headmistress, stretched full-length on her back across the floor, out for the count.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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