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hit out

Speech parts

1. hit out - Noun

2. hit out - Verb

Meaning

To strike out with the fist, usually without planning or accuracy.
Feeling somebody grab at his wallet in the darkness, he hit out at the assailant.

(figuratively) To react viciously (towards someone/something).

(obsolete) To perform by good luck.

(UK, sports) A match or session, particularly for practice.

(sports, field hockey) A penalty shot, awarded when the ball is deemed to have been sent out of play deliberately.

(Australia, horse racing) A fast gallop.

(Australian rules football) An instance of knocking the ball out of a ruck contest.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing. Inayat Khan

You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough. Ernie Els

Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse. George Saunders

And he hit out at “so-called Western intelligence”, accusing US, UK and European governments of making repeated “false allegations” against China. Source: Internet

At the hearings former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney also hit out at the Trump administration for boasting about its rollout of coronavirus testing, saying: "I find our testing record nothing to celebrate whatsoever." Source: Internet

A NUMBER of high profile figures of the Catholic Church in America have hit out at Pope Francis for endorsing same-sex civil unions. Source: Internet

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