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单词 a monkey on one's back
释义

a monkey on one's back

informal
1A burdensome problem: the issue of her absence from the tournament last year remains the monkey on her back...
  • The North, understandably still stuck in an anti-British mode, couldn't bring itself to throw this particular monkey off its back.
  • It was like having a monkey on your back that you just can't get rid of.
  • Is retro therefore almost a monkey on your back when trying to get your new product off the ground?
1.1A dependence on drugs: she returned to her family with the heroin monkey on her back...
  • ‘Yup, it's an addiction, a monkey on my back,’ he said.
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