stuck in the mud

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A variant of the children's game of touch or tag in which a tagged player stands with arms and legs apart, and people crawling under such a player cannot be tagged. uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Stuck, unable to progress. idiomatic
    — Gorbachev needed to end it because the cost of defence, rising blindly as the army ordered more and more missiles, was bankrupting the Soviet Union. Its economy, stuck in the mud and mired in congenital secrecy, couldn't cope anyway, but the burden of defence profligacy was forcing it to its knees.

词形变化

more stuck in the mud comparative most stuck in the mud superlative
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