English Dictionary

knock the corners off

動詞

自動詞 他動詞

(transitive, intransitive) To accustom (a person) to the vicissitudes of life; to cure a person of naïveté, selfishness, etc. by exposure to reality.

日本語の意味

現実の厳しさに触れることで、未熟さや利己的な態度を改めさせ、人生の変動に対応できるようにすること / 苦難や現実に慣れさせ、素朴さや自己中心性を克服させ、成熟させること

A few hard summers will knock the corners off a young athlete.

数回の厳しい夏が若い選手を世の中の荒波に慣れさせるだろう。

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To accustom (a person) to the vicissitudes of life; to cure a person of naïveté, selfishness, etc. by exposure to reality.

That's the point. He needs a father to knock the corners off him and whip him into shape.'

knocks the corners off （ present singular third-person ）

knocking the corners off （ participle present ）

knocked the corners off （ participle past ）

knocked the corners off （ past ）