tar baby

n.1. A inextricable situation or difficult and pressing problem that often grows worse as one tries to deal with it.2. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a black person, especially a dark-skinned black child.

[After "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby," an Uncle Remus story by Joel Chandler Harris in which Brer Fox makes a doll out of tar and Brer Rabbit gets stuck in it when he punches it after it does not return his greeting.]

tar baby

n a troublesome situation that is made worse by attempts to extricate oneself from it [C20: after the tar-covered doll in a story (1881) by Joel Chandler Harris]

tar′ ba`by

n. an inextricable problem or situation. [after the tar doll in an Uncle Remus story (1881) of J. C. Harris]

单词	tar baby
释义	tar baby tar baby n.1. A inextricable situation or difficult and pressing problem that often grows worse as one tries to deal with it.2. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a black person, especially a dark-skinned black child. [After "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby," an Uncle Remus story by Joel Chandler Harris in which Brer Fox makes a doll out of tar and Brer Rabbit gets stuck in it when he punches it after it does not return his greeting.] tar baby n a troublesome situation that is made worse by attempts to extricate oneself from it [C20: after the tar-covered doll in a story (1881) by Joel Chandler Harris] tar′ ba`by n. an inextricable problem or situation. [after the tar doll in an Uncle Remus story (1881) of J. C. Harris]
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