knock spots off somebody/somethingBritish EnglishBrE spokenBETTER to be much better than someone or something 比某人/某物强得多，远远胜过某人/某物 The new computer system knocks spots off the old one. 新的计算机系统比起旧的要好得多。
knock spots off somebody/something• It certainly knocks spots off anything attempted by the newly-Thatcherising Conservatives in the run-up to the 1979 election.
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