figurative. The central or main point of something intricate, involved, or difficult; the main point in a problem; the complication in the plot of…
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| 释义 | the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > point of greatest difficulty (4) knotc1386 figurative. The central or main point of something intricate, involved, or difficult; the main point in a problem; the complication in the plot of… one's (or the) last (or utter) shifta1604 one's (or the) last (or †utter) shift: the last resource. to be at (†under) one's last shift(s: to be at the last extremity, in the greatest… hump1914 transferred. transferred and figurative. The critical point (in an undertaking, ordeal, the ascent of a seaplane, etc.), esp. in the phrase over the… crunch1970 The principal problem; a sticking-point, an issue which gives rise to conflict or crisis. colloquial. |
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