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单词 to be a foul way out
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to be a foul way out
d. to be a foul way out: to be in (severe) trouble or difficulty. Cf. to find oneself in the mire at mire n.1 1b, to be in the shit at shit n. 4b. Obsolete.Scott's use is apparently a deliberate echo of Shakespeare's.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 179 If I cannot recouer your Neece, I am a foule way out . View more context for this quotation
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xiii. 179 We are a foul way out if we cannot discover this infernal vein that he has prophesied about these two years.
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