| 单词 | kettle of fish |
| 释义 | kettle of fish (once / 40202 pages) n The expression "a kettle of fish" means "a real mess." If you accidentally scheduled three dates on the same night, you might call it a kettle of fish. Most people who use this expression say either "a fine kettle of fish" or "a pretty kettle of fish," though what they're describing isn't fine or pretty. Word experts aren't sure why kettle of fish came to be synonymous with "a muddle," but many of them guess that it's the way fish remains look — heads, bones, and innards muddled together — that inspired the expression. WORD FAMILYkettle of fish: kettles of fish USAGE EXAMPLESThis is a very different kettle of fish. Wall Street Journal(Dec 17, 2016) Donald Trump, with his Twitter habits, with his detachment from party, is a new kettle of fish. Wall Street Journal(Dec 07, 2016) Its front room was once Kettle of Fish’s second home, and photographs and paintings still hang paying tribute to that bar’s history. New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) n informal terms for a difficult situation Syn|Hypo|Hyper fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle dog's breakfast, dog's dinner a poor job; a mess difficulty a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome |
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