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单词 to get into difficulties
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to get into difficulties
P2. to get into difficulties: to find oneself in a difficult situation or adverse circumstances; to get into trouble; spec. (originally euphemistic) to experience financial problems.
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1765 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 18 Mar. As they [sc. officers] are supposed to be more guilty of irregularities and imprudencies than other people, they are much less pitied when they get into difficulties and confinement.
1794 Morning Post 3 Nov. 4 He was very little acquainted with the minutes of their proceedings, nor did he ever dream of their getting into difficulties.
1826 Morning Post 3 Aug. The gate-keeper observed, that a person of that name had got into difficulties, and had been transported.
1895 Law Times Rep. 73 21/2 The annuity was regularly paid up to 1878, then Mr. Harle got into difficulties.
1954 New Castle (Pa.) News 27 Jan. 11/3 He got into difficulties through the publication of articles held to be inflammatory.
1999 What Investm. Mar. 52/3 If a company was to get into difficulties, its bond holders would have to be paid out first before its shareholders received a penny.
2005 Independent 24 Feb. (Review section) 6/3 Anyone who gets into difficulties while swimming, and has to be rescued by lifeguards will be charged £30 to £140.
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