on one’s bicycle
adj.— «She never got on her bicycle, as they say in ring parlance about excessively defensive fighters, during her boxing career.» —“Lady boxer will hang up her gloves” by Jim Kernaghan London Free Press (Ontario, Can.) Sept. 11, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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