英语词汇“to get the short end of the stick”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(c) Originally North American. to get (also have) the short end of the stick and variants: to end up at a disadvantage or in a comparatively unfavourable position in a situation, outcome, arrangement, etc.; cf. short end n. (d) at short adj., n., and adv. Compounds 6a, and also to get the wrong end of the stick at Phrases 6a(a), to get the mucky end of the stick at Phrases 6a(b). [Apparently a conflation of to get (also have) the wrong end of the stick at Phrases 6a(a) with to draw the short straw (see straw n.¹ 5h).]

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1885 Boston Daily Globe 7 Jan. (Suppl.) The old system of life insurance..was a game in which the insured bought the short end of the stick.

1921 Washington Post 28 Dec. 2 Taxpayers in the United States are getting decidedly the short end of the stick on payments for the expenses of the armies.

1973 R. V. Fitzgerald Conjoint Marital Therapy iv. 69 It seemed to her as though girls were always getting the short end of the stick.

2006 D. Trussoni Falling through Earth (2007) iv. 60 At Roscoe's, if you hadn't had the short end of the stick most of your life..there was surely something wrong with you.

单词	to get the short end of the stick
释义	> as lemmas to get (also have) the short end of the stick (c) Originally North American. to get (also have) the short end of the stick and variants: to end up at a disadvantage or in a comparatively unfavourable position in a situation, outcome, arrangement, etc.; cf. short end n. (d) at short adj., n., and adv. Compounds 6a, and also to get the wrong end of the stick at Phrases 6a(a), to get the mucky end of the stick at Phrases 6a(b). [Apparently a conflation of to get (also have) the wrong end of the stick at Phrases 6a(a) with to draw the short straw (see straw n.¹ 5h).] ΚΠ 1885 Boston Daily Globe 7 Jan. (Suppl.) The old system of life insurance..was a game in which the insured bought the short end of the stick. 1921 Washington Post 28 Dec. 2 Taxpayers in the United States are getting decidedly the short end of the stick on payments for the expenses of the armies. 1973 R. V. Fitzgerald Conjoint Marital Therapy iv. 69 It seemed to her as though girls were always getting the short end of the stick. 2006 D. Trussoni Falling through Earth (2007) iv. 60 At Roscoe's, if you hadn't had the short end of the stick most of your life..there was surely something wrong with you. extracted from stickn.¹ < as lemmas
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