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Hi:
What does "on his third offence" mean in the following passage? I have not seen "on offence". Does it mean "he had committed offences offence three times before the last one? It is from the book Persian Petroleum, by Davoudi, p. 120.
An engineer named Martin had abused a native worker to such an extent that he ‘was unconscious for eight hours and, as a matter of fact, might well have succumbed’. 87 Martin was already on his third offence and had denied any wrongdoing, while admitting to his colleagues that he had almost ‘killed the blighter’
Thanks very much.
What does "on his third offence" mean in the following passage? I have not seen "on offence". Does it mean "he had committed offences offence three times before the last one? It is from the book Persian Petroleum, by Davoudi, p. 120.
An engineer named Martin had abused a native worker to such an extent that he ‘was unconscious for eight hours and, as a matter of fact, might well have succumbed’. 87 Martin was already on his third offence and had denied any wrongdoing, while admitting to his colleagues that he had almost ‘killed the blighter’
Thanks very much.
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