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词汇 in a jam
释义
Idiom
in a bind and in a jam
Theme: DIFFICULTY
in a tight or difficult situation; stuck on a problem. (In can be replaced with into to show movement toward or into the state described by bind or jam. Especially get into. See the examples.)
I'm in a bind. I owe a lot of money.Whenever I get into a jam, I ask my supervisor for help.When things get busy around here, we get in a bind. We could use another helper.

Slang
in a jam
Theme: DIFFICULTIES
mod. in a difficult situation.
I think I'm sort of in a jam.Sam is in a jam.

in (a bit of) a jam

In a troublesome situation. I'm in a bit of a jam—I accidentally made plans with two different men tonight! We're in a jam now because the hotel gave our room away!

in(to) a jam

Fig. in(to) a difficult situation. Mary cannot keep track of the many times Dave got himself into a jam. I found myself in a jam when my car overheated on the highway.

in a jam

mod. in a difficult situation. I think I’m sort of in a jam.

in a pinch

When hard-pressed. The British version of this expression, “at a pinch,” dates from the fifteenth century, when William Caxton in his translation of The Book of Faytes of Armes and of Chyualrye (1489) wrote, “Corageously at a pynche [he] shal renne vpon hem.” By the time Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Black Arrow (1888) it also was put as, “It yet might serve him, in a pinch.” A related expression of more recent provenance is in a jam, which similarly implies that one is “compressed” or “squeezed,” by circumstance, into a tight spot.
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