| 释义 | go down swinging/fightingidiom informal
 to continue to fight or to make a strong, determined effort even though you are likely to fail or lose:
 They beat us in the end, but we went down swinging.
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Trying and making an effort
 A game
 all out
 assault
 attempt
 attempted
 commitment
 give something your best shotidiom
 go after someone
 go all outidiom
 go for itidiom
 go for someone
 nose
 shoot for the moonidiom
 shoot the worksidiom
 smarten (someone/something) up
 smarten up your actidiom
 spare
 square the circleidiom
 stretch
 struggle
 
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