glass jaw

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[glass jaw] {n.}, {slang} The inability of a boxer to get a hard punch on the jaw without being knocked out; a tendency to be knocked out easily.

* /He would have been champion except for his glass jaw./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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