| 词汇 | on-the-ropes |
| 释义 | on the ropesidiom informal doing badly and likely to fail: 处于困境；即将失败，即将完蛋 I think the business is finally on the ropes.我觉得这家企业最终要垮掉了。 not achieving wealth, popularity, or success unsuccessfulHe tried for years to get his work published before accepting he was a commercially unsuccessful writer. failedShe was a failed singer. frustratedHe was a legendary actor, but a frustrated director. strugglingThe struggling actor was cut from yet another film. on the ropesAfter that scandal, the MP is really on the ropes. Unsuccessful (people and things) abortive abortively achiever be dead in the wateridiom bootless fruitlessly fruitlessness frustrated futile futilely on the rocksidiom redemption rope small-time small-timer up and downidiom vain vainly washed up you and whose army?idiom on the ropes | American Dictionaryon the ropesidiom in serious trouble or likely to fail: For a while, our business was on the ropes. |
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