Definition
A serious setback; a traumatizing event which prevents or hinders continuation of an activity.
In Context
- ""I can hardly exaggerate the body blow to the Service such a decision would give. Nobody will believe in it again.""
- "The polio vaccination program took a body blow last spring when the disease developed in children injected with vaccine from the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif."
- "And the government received a psychological body-blow with the crushing defeat of the Blakeney government in neighboring Saskatchewan."
- "[D]rone strikes . . . have delivered body blows to Al Qaeda's leadership in the tribal areas of northern Pakistan without risking a single American soldier on the ground."
See Also
- kidney punch