in a pickle

介词短语
中文释义

英文释义

介词短语
  1. In a difficult situation or a troubling quandary. idiomatic,informal
    — How cam'ſt thou in this pickle? / Tri. I haue bin in ſuch a pickle ſince I ſaw you laſt, / That I feare me will neuer out of my bones:

词源

The term refers to being in pickling solution, presumably unpleasant. It was first used in English by William Shakespeare in The Tempest (1611), although the phrase had been used in Dutch earlier.
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