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单词 under the pump
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under the pump

Australian Under pressure to do something: they kept their composure well when we were under the pump...
  • I was under the pump a little bit to get myself ready in the last couple of weeks with some back tightness.
  • By any count the brothers are under the pump as current difficulties are used to rationalize again.
  • There are plenty of other senior executives inside the bank who should be under the pump.
Probably from an old practice of forcibly holding someone under a pump in a public place and pumping water over them, e.g. as a form of punishment
See parent entry: pump
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