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at a pinch idiomUK(USin a pinch) Something that you can do at a pinch can be done if it is really necessary, but it will be difficult, not perfect, or not what you would really like: 必要时;在紧要关头 I need £2,000 to set up the business, but I suppose £1,500 would do at a pinch.我需要2000英镑来创办这个公司,不过实在凑不够,1500英镑也可以。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Merely and barely all all of somethingidiom barely but by a whiskeridiom by inchesidiom can ill afford (to do something)phrase hardly ill inch just little merely merest narrowly nothing more thanidiom only pinch scarcely whisker
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