| 单词 | a pretty pass |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(to come to, reach, etc.) a pretty pass 3. A situation or point in the course of a sequence of events; esp. a critical, difficult, or unfortunate situation; a predicament, a juncture. Frequently with modifying word; (to come to, reach, etc.) a pretty pass: (to arrive at) a bad or regrettable state of affairs. Cf. pace n.1 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things hard casec1325 box1546 pass1560 little-ease1589 a fine kettle1741 mess1812 how-do-you-do1835 hot mess1867 bed of nails1872 shitter1958 strife1963 the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] > juncture or critical point timeeOE point?c1225 state of time (also times)1534 pass1560 conjuncture1619 juncture1656 hinge1775 cross-road1795 contingency1803 the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > reach a regrettable state of affairs (to come to, reach, etc.) a pretty pass1842 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lviij Yet all thynges lyke to come to suche a passe. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iii. sig. Bb3v Him seemed fit, that wounded Knight To visite, after this nights perillous passe . View more context for this quotation 1610 R. Abbot Old Way 27 To that desperate passe they are brought by the writings of the authors. 1682 N. Luttrell Diary 26 June (1857) I. 199 All things are come to that passe, that they judge by the men, and not by the meritt of the cause. 1729 W. Law Serious Call iv. 66 To such a pass are we now come. a1822 P. B. Shelley Triumph of Life in Posthumous Poems (1824) 85 How and by what paths I have been brought To this dread pass. 1842 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 3 192 A pretty pass things are come to, when hussies like this are to be bepraised and bepitied. 1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 9 Neglecting, at this critical pass, to secure the maritime approaches to his realm. 1955 Times 5 Aug. 10/4 Things, one felt, must have reached a pretty pass if the big banks..had run into the same squalid staffing problems as the National Coal Board. 1992 M. Bishop Count Geiger's Blues xxxi. 153 Had Bari come to such a pass, erotically speaking, that she'd developed a fetish for guys gussied up in superhero drag? < as lemmas |
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