英语词汇“to come unstuck”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to come unstuck, to come to grief.

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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief

misfareOE

miswendOE

misferec1275

misspeeda1387

miscarryc1387

mischieve?a1400

to catch copper1530

to lose one's seatc1540

mischief1598

to bu(r)st one's boiler1824

to come to grief1850

to come (also go) a mucker1851

to come (fall, get) a cropper1858

mucker1862

to go or be up the flume1865

to come undone1899

to play smash1903

to come to a sticky end1904

to come unstuck1911

1911 R. Kipling in Harper's Mag. Dec. 3/2 ‘Don't apologize,’ said Gilbert, when the paroxysm ended. ‘I'm used to people coming a little—unstuck in this room.’

1928 Sunday Express 3 June 11/3 Soon after this I came unstuck over a horse which the Prince of Wales, later King Edward, had very kindly given me.

1928 Observer 29 July 19/2 But with freak distributions of cards which justify high bidding, doubles that look sound often come ‘unstuck’.

1928 Daily Express 12 Nov. 12 I thought my theory had come unstuck.

1936 Punch 14 Oct. 439/2 He had his chances, but no luck; He always managed to come unstuck.

1957 J. I. M. Stewart Use of Riches i. ix. 109 Here, in fact, was divorce-court stuff—call it the sort of situation that may develop with anyone once things come unstuck.

1958 Listener 16 Oct. 600/1 This is where the theory comes unstuck.

1970 Guardian 11 May 10/1 It is disturbing that on this occasion Mr. Nixon should have come so unstuck.

单词	to come unstuck
释义	> as lemmas to come unstuck a. to come unstuck, to come to grief. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief misfareOE miswendOE misferec1275 misspeeda1387 miscarryc1387 mischieve?a1400 to catch copper1530 to lose one's seatc1540 mischief1598 to bu(r)st one's boiler1824 to come to grief1850 to come (also go) a mucker1851 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 mucker1862 to go or be up the flume1865 to come undone1899 to play smash1903 to come to a sticky end1904 to come unstuck1911 1911 R. Kipling in Harper's Mag. Dec. 3/2 ‘Don't apologize,’ said Gilbert, when the paroxysm ended. ‘I'm used to people coming a little—unstuck in this room.’ 1928 Sunday Express 3 June 11/3 Soon after this I came unstuck over a horse which the Prince of Wales, later King Edward, had very kindly given me. 1928 Observer 29 July 19/2 But with freak distributions of cards which justify high bidding, doubles that look sound often come ‘unstuck’. 1928 Daily Express 12 Nov. 12 I thought my theory had come unstuck. 1936 Punch 14 Oct. 439/2 He had his chances, but no luck; He always managed to come unstuck. 1957 J. I. M. Stewart Use of Riches i. ix. 109 Here, in fact, was divorce-court stuff—call it the sort of situation that may develop with anyone once things come unstuck. 1958 Listener 16 Oct. 600/1 This is where the theory comes unstuck. 1970 Guardian 11 May 10/1 It is disturbing that on this occasion Mr. Nixon should have come so unstuck. extracted from unstuckadj. < as lemmas
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