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"etymology_text": "An allusion to glass being easily breakable.",
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"ref": "1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, page 109",
"text": "How was I to know that big ape had a glass jaw?",
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"ref": "[2010, Stephen Timblin, Muhammad Ali: King of the Ring, Sterling, page 101",
"text": "Early in Ali's career, experts believed he had what's called a glass jaw—that he would fall after the first big punch. He was now proving that he could take a punch, but each punch chipped away at his health.]",
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"A fighting vulnerability where one is easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw (due to lack of conditioning, insufficient training, or damage from past cerebral concussions)."
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"(chiefly boxing) A fighting vulnerability where one is easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw (due to lack of conditioning, insufficient training, or damage from past cerebral concussions)."
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"word": "lasileuka"
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"sense": "sensitive chin or jaw",
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"word": "Glaskinn"
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"ref": "1979, M. LeVan Rhame, Jon Chalmers Niemeyer, Tennis Magic: Playing With a Full Deck, New York: Vantage Press, page 164",
"text": "It is essential that a player be able to identify his glass jaw or his weak spot and learn to deal with it in actual competition.",
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{
"ref": "2008 February 13, Ross Douthat, “Obama's Glass Jaw?”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "But if Obama does have a glass jaw, if his candidacy is a bubble waiting to be pricked, a strong Republican nominee like McCain is precisely the guy to do it.",
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},
{
"ref": "2019 July 1, Gabriela Resto-Montero, “Post-debate polls show Biden’s lead shrinking and Harris gaining”, in Vox",
"text": "Does the frontrunner have a glass jaw?\nAll year, Biden has led in the vast majority of national and early-state polls of Democratic voters.",
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"(figurative) A vulnerability of that sort; a weak spot."
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"ref": "1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, page 109",
"text": "How was I to know that big ape had a glass jaw?",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "[2010, Stephen Timblin, Muhammad Ali: King of the Ring, Sterling, page 101",
"text": "Early in Ali's career, experts believed he had what's called a glass jaw—that he would fall after the first big punch. He was now proving that he could take a punch, but each punch chipped away at his health.]",
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"(chiefly boxing) A fighting vulnerability where one is easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw (due to lack of conditioning, insufficient training, or damage from past cerebral concussions)."
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"text": "It is essential that a player be able to identify his glass jaw or his weak spot and learn to deal with it in actual competition.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 February 13, Ross Douthat, “Obama's Glass Jaw?”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "But if Obama does have a glass jaw, if his candidacy is a bubble waiting to be pricked, a strong Republican nominee like McCain is precisely the guy to do it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 July 1, Gabriela Resto-Montero, “Post-debate polls show Biden’s lead shrinking and Harris gaining”, in Vox",
"text": "Does the frontrunner have a glass jaw?\nAll year, Biden has led in the vast majority of national and early-state polls of Democratic voters.",
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"(figurative) A vulnerability of that sort; a weak spot."
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"word": "glass chin"
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"sense": "sensitive chin or jaw",
"word": "lasileuka"
},
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"sense": "sensitive chin or jaw",
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"word": "Glaskinn"
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