| 词组 | come to a pretty pass |
| 释义 | Idiom come to a pretty pass Theme: DEVELOPMENT to develop into a bad, unfortunate, or difficult situation.Things have come to a pretty pass when people have to beg in the streets.When parents are afraid of their children, things have come to a pretty pass. 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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