| 单词 | the pits |
| 释义 | the pitsSEE SYNONYMS FOR the pits ON THESAURUS.COM The worst possible situation, as in Spending your birthday working alone is the pits, or That job is the pits. The allusion in this term is unclear. Some think it refers to coal pits, others to armpits, and still others to the area beside an auto racecourse, also called the pits, where cars are serviced during a race. [Second half of 1900s] Words nearby the pitsPicture of Dorian Gray, The, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, The Pilgrim's Progress, the Pill, Pioneers, The, the pits, Plague, The, Playboy of the Western World, The, plot thickens, the, Portrait of a Lady, The, Possessed, The The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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