| 单词 | in hot water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin hot water b. figurative. colloquial. A state of discomfort, difficulty, or painful uncertainty; disgrace, trouble. Chiefly in in hot water. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits needfulnessc1350 kankedortc1374 pressc1375 needfultya1382 briguec1400 brikec1400 plightc1400 taking?c1425 partyc1440 distrait1477 brakea1529 hot water1537 strait1544 extremes1547 pickle1562 praemunire1595 lock1598 angustiae1653 difficulty1667 scrape1709 premune1758 hole1760 Queer Street1811 warm water1813 strift1815 fix1816 plisky1818 snapper1818 amplush1827 false position1830 bind1851 jackpot1887 tight1896 squeeze1905 jam1914 1537 J. Husee Let. 23 June in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/11/100) f. 123 If they be to be hadd I wyll haue of them, or it shall cost me hott water. 1765 in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 125 I believe the present set [of ministers] might stay in if they chose; but we are kept, to use the modern phrase, in hot water. 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. viii. 108 If you won't dress, there's no need to keep the poor boy in hot water for nothing. 1808 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 82 This latter business had kept me in continual hot water—writing & writing, & fretting & fretting. 1820 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Apr. (1977) VII. 73 You forget that you keep me in hot water till I know whether they are arrived—or, if I must have the bore of recopying. 1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene III. vi. 109 You will find it much pleasanter to be on good terms with your captain than to be eternally in hot water. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. i. 10 In everlasting hot water, as the most incorrigible scapegrace for ten miles round. 1902 Menorah Jan. 38 Chaikel Fishel was..always in hot water from babyhood to manhood. 1949 E. Goudge Gentian Hill i. vi. 107 I must get home in double quick time if we're not going to get into hot water with Mother Sprigg. 1992 Daily Star 16 Jan. 2/5 [He]..might briefly wish for a return to his carefree bachelor days, which could land him in hot water. 2004 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 27 Nov. l3/3 Silvio Berlusconi found himself in hot water for sneering at a German member of the European Parliament. < as lemmas |
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