down for the count

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Decisively beaten; defeated; rendered irrelevant for the long term.
Soundly unconscious, either because asleep or because otherwise knocked out.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, for, the, count: lying upon the mat of a boxing ring while the referee counts the fighter out.

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down for the count

The figurative senses are extended from the literal one.

out cold

count out countout lost to the world saved by the bell

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