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the yips
phrase[ plural ]
in sports, especially golf, a condition in which a player is suddenly not able to hit, throw, or kick the ball well, usually because of nervousness:
He gave up competitive golf after developing a serious case of the yips on his putting.由于在推杆时严重紧张失常，他放弃了竞技高尔夫球。
He fell prey to the bowling yips at the beginning of last season.
Footballers are as vulnerable to the yips as anyone.
old-fashioned
a state of nervousness: 紧张的感觉
"People have the yips about a conservative owning a newspaper in a liberal town," she said.她说：“在一个自由主义的城市里，人们会因为一个保守派拥有一份报纸而大惊小怪。”
She's got the yips and can't go onstage.
Boy do rollercoasters give me a big case of the yips!
See also
yipnoun(NERVOUSNESS)
You see quite a few guys get the yips, not only in the golf swing but a ton of guys with putting and chipping.
In the latest study researchers recruited 25 golfers, who complained of the yips and studied them making dozens of putts of varying lengths, measuring the electrical activity in their muscles.
The conscious mind is often a drag on many activities. Too much thinking can give a golfer the yips.
When they had forged nine points ahead of Liverpool after 29 games, it looked all over. But then Leeds started to get the yips and Liverpool steadily closed the gap.
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