英语词汇creek 的词组、短语、固定搭配翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

词组

creek

释义

creek
noun
▶ down the creek
in oil drilling, wasted or lost US

He let his grease go down the creek and got run-off (fired). — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 47, 1954

▶ up the creek
in trouble US, 1918
Variant phrases include “up the creek without a paddle” and “up the creek with a paddle in a barbed-wire canoe.”

The local bogies [police] made inquiries and he was up the creek. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 31, 1956
If not you’re up the creek without a paddle, and no mistake. — Troy Kennedy Martin, Z Cars, p. 135, 1962

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