in dire straights

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介词短语
  1. Misspelling of in dire straits alt-of,misspelling
    — Upon his failure to collect the rents of Wrottesley and with all his other estates fully mortgaged, Sir Hugh must have been at this time in dire straights for want of money to enable him to rejoin the King in Flanders and the method he took to extricate himself from his difficulty does credit to his ingenuity, if not to his honesty.

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This misspelling first appears c. 1900. See cite below.
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