英语词汇“to paint into a corner”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

> as lemmas

to paint (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner

P3. transitive. to paint (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner: to force (a person) into a situation from which it is not easy to escape; to oblige (a person) to follow a restricted (and usually undesirable) course of action.

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1951 E. Pendell Population on Loose ii. 34 In the years of scarcity that lie ahead, the people who have come to depend on other lands for food have painted themselves into a corner.

1965 Amer. Econ. Rev. 55 50 Britain's new Labour Government..is now committed to nationalize steel... Labour..has painted itself into a corner.

1972 Bankers Mag. Winter 92/1 He had never been popular in the popular sense of the word, and now he was being painted into a corner by the press and the ‘Democratic economists.’

2002 Denver Post (Nexis) 22 Sept. ee2 I had sort of painted myself into a corner. I had no college degree. I couldn't keep leading the life I'd been leading.

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as lemmas

单词	to paint into a corner
释义	> as lemmas to paint (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner P3. transitive. to paint (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner: to force (a person) into a situation from which it is not easy to escape; to oblige (a person) to follow a restricted (and usually undesirable) course of action. ΚΠ 1951 E. Pendell Population on Loose ii. 34 In the years of scarcity that lie ahead, the people who have come to depend on other lands for food have painted themselves into a corner. 1965 Amer. Econ. Rev. 55 50 Britain's new Labour Government..is now committed to nationalize steel... Labour..has painted itself into a corner. 1972 Bankers Mag. Winter 92/1 He had never been popular in the popular sense of the word, and now he was being painted into a corner by the press and the ‘Democratic economists.’ 2002 Denver Post (Nexis) 22 Sept. ee2 I had sort of painted myself into a corner. I had no college degree. I couldn't keep leading the life I'd been leading. extracted from paintv.¹ < as lemmas
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