| 单词 | a wrong box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa wrong (also bad, awful, etc.) box a. A situation, position, or predicament, esp. one that is difficult, unsuitable, or restricted. Chiefly in a wrong (also bad, awful, etc.) box. Cf. to be in the same box at Phrases 5. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things hard casec1325 box1546 pass1560 little-ease1589 a fine kettle1741 mess1812 how-do-you-do1835 hot mess1867 bed of nails1872 shitter1958 strife1963 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Kiv Ye tooke The wrong waie to wood, & the wrong sow by theare And therby in the wronge boxe to thriue ye weare. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 17 Socrates said, laugh not, Zophyrus is not in a wrong box. 1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica 252 You should find your self in a wrong Box. 1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 67 England..helps us out of many a bad box. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. x. 147 Take care your rights of man don't get you in the wrong box. 1852 in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 261 You must..help me out of a box. 1969 J. Broughton Thud Ridge iii. 67 They put you in an impossible box. 2001 National Underwriter (Nexis) 13 Aug. 4 If the client acts on the advice but then runs into problems later on, ‘the advisor could find him or herself in an awful box’. < as lemmas |
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