| 词组 | floundering |
| 释义 | (redirected from floundering)flounder aroundTo have a hard time doing something or making progress. She expected to move on to greater success, but ever since she left that popular show, she's just been floundering around. flounder through (something)1. To have a hard time physically advancing through something. I floundered through the mud because my boots kept getting stuck. 2. To have a hard time enduring a challenging situation. I definitely floundered through that interview—I mean, I stumbled over everything I said! flounder aroundto struggle or wallow around. The whole company is just floundering around and getting nowhere. The horse floundered around, trying to get across the soggy pasture. flounder through something1. Lit. to struggle through something, such as a mire, swamp, etc. The Jeep floundered through the swamp without getting stuck. The horse floundered through the muddy field. 2. Fig. to struggle awkwardly through a difficult situation. We floundered through the performance. I don't know how we did it, but we did it. We just floundered through our presentation, hoping for a lot of questions. flat as a pancakeExtremely level, especially too much so. For example, There are no hills; this terrain is flat as a pancake. This simile dates from the 1500s and has survived its contemporary, flat as a flounder. It is sometimes used, either disparagingly or ruefully, to describe a small-breasted woman. flat as a pancakeIf something is as flat as a pancake, it is very flat. There was barely a breeze and the water was as flat as a pancake. Could he really put up interest rates now? With the economy flat as a pancake and the housing market in crisis? flat as a pancakecompletely flat.(as) flat as a ˈpancake(informal) completely flat: There are one or two hills in Norfolk, but otherwise the landscape is as flat as a pancake.flat as a pancakeExceedingly flat, sometimes excessively so. This simile has been around since the sixteenth century, appearing in Nicholas Udall’s translation of Erasmus (1542) and Henry Porter’s play The Two Angrie Women of Abington (1599, 2.3). Morever, it survived and replaced the equally old flat as a flounder and is still frequently used today, often in deprecating fashion to describe a woman’s lack of mammary endowment. |
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