| 词汇 | things have come to a pretty pass |
| 释义 | Idiom things have come to a pretty passthings have come to/reached a pretty pass something that you say which means a situation is very bad.Things have come to a pretty pass when old people are dying of hypothermia because they can't afford to heat their homes. (often + when)come to a pretty passTo encounter or develop into a particularly difficult, troublesome, or bad state or situation. Now don't spread this around, but I hear thing have come to a pretty pass between Mark and his girlfriend. Negotiations between management and the striking employees came to a pretty pass when the labor union rejected the company's latest deal. come to a pretty passFig. to encounter a difficult situation. (This pretty expresses irony.) This project has come to a pretty pass. I don't know how we can possibly finish on time. Mary had come to a pretty pass. She quit her job to be with her husband, and then he left her. come to a pretty passreach a bad or regrettable state of affairs. |
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