| 单词 | where the shoe pinches |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhere the shoe pinches b. transitive. where the shoe pinches and variants: where (a person's) difficulty or trouble is; where the heart of a problem or most afflicting part of a situation lies. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [noun] > a disadvantage damage1398 disadvantagec1425 afterdeal1481 disprofit?1555 where the shoe pinches?a1580 drawbacka1640 negative1702 take-off1797 letdown1840 disamenity1864 handicap1872 back-draw1883 disbenefit1968 1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 21 If you see my shoe new and well shaped, yet doe you not knowe where it pincheth my foote. Euen so, though I looke merily, you know not (alas to my paine) where my griefe is.] ?a1580 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 85 Subtle enemyes, that knowe..where the shooe pinchith us most. 1659 M. Poole Quo Warranto v. 50 And because here the shoe pincheth, our Brethren make a strong attempt against this assertion. 1721 C. Cibber Refusal v. 67 Ay, ay; there the Shoe pinches. 1779 C. Dibdin Chelsea Pensioner i. 15 Why, to be sure, nobody knows where the shoe pinches so well as them that wears it. 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late III. iii. 28 Oh, is that where the shoe pinches? 1890 W. E. Norris Misadventure xlviii Only after the deed has been done does the shoe really begin to pinch. 1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim vi. 67 ‘I ain't so far gone as to put up with the sight of you sitting in Captain Brierly's chair.’.. ‘You would like to sit in it yourself—that's where the shoe pinches.’ 1971 Times 11 June 15/7 It has not proved unduly difficult to raise large sums for cathedrals... It is at the humbler and less dramatic parochial level that the shoe pinches. 2003 Times (Nexis) 25 June Governments do not set out to deny the least privileged their rights, but they act where the shoe pinches. < as lemmas |
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