| 词组 | 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 jamIn 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 jamFig. 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 pinchWhen 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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