24 phrases found for the topic Difficulty
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Phrase: With your tails between your legs
Meaning: When you have been defeated or you have lost.
Examples:
The Castilian army returned home with their tails between their legs in 1898, and Cuba became a free nation.
The football team left the field with their tails between their legs. They were eliminated in the first round of the competition.
Date: 10-08-2021
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Phrase: On the ropes
Meaning: In a very difficult situation, in a situation that has practically no escape, in a helpless situation.
Examples:
Google has put many company on the ropes over the years because of its unfair policies, which is why I never use its services.
Many companies are on the ropes as a result of this pandemic.
The government was on the ropes, and had to call an early election.
The Castilian boxer is on the ropes, and he is receiving a lot of punches from his opponent.
Our army is on the ropes, and we need reinforcements. If they do not arrive soon, we will have to surrender.
Date: 26-01-2021
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Phrase: Put a damper on something
Meaning: To spoil something, to make something less good.
Examples:
The heavy rain put a damper on the festival.
We were visiting some relatives abroad, but the sudden death of a friend of ours put a damper on things, and we decided to return home.
Their unfair laws have put a damper on the whole process of reaching our freedom, but we will never give up.
Date: 12-05-2018
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Phrase: Not to be a kindergarten
Meaning: If something is not a kindergarten, it is not child's play because it is difficult, tough, serious, that is, it is for professionals and experienced people.
Examples:
Climbing Everest is not a kindergarten. You need a lot of training.
Come on, boys, we are not in a kindergarten classroom. We need to be the best.
Date: 21-04-2018
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Phrase: Put (or throw) a spanner in the works
Meaning: To prevent something from happening: The totalitarian measures taken by the Castilian empire against the Catalan referendum has thrown a spanner in the works.
Date: 23-09-2017
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Phrase: The killer question
Meaning: That is, the transcendental or most fascinating or most difficult question:
One of the killer questions is whether there is a life after death. I think there isn't, but many people believe there is.
When one is looking for a job, one of the killer questions could be: Why should I employ you?
Date: 24-05-2015
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Phrase: Go through hell
Meaning: To suffer a lot: When they told me that my daughter had had a terrible accident in a far-off country, I went through hell.
Date: 08-05-2015
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Phrase: There is light at the end of the tunnel
Meaning: That is, there is hope:
Examples:
The situation is very bad in the Castilian empire, but we will get rid of those who have ruined our lives in the next election(s), so there is light at the end of the tunnel.
After two years of suffering, now I can see (the) light at the end of the tunnel (that is, things seem to be looking up).
Date: 18-02-2015
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Phrase: A heavy (or difficult) load to bear
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Phrase: Add fuel to the fire (or to the flames)
Meaning: To make things worse: Please shut up and do not add fuel to the fire.
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Phrase: Be (skate, tread on or walk) on thin ice
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Phrase: Be all Greek to me
Meaning: Not to understand: This puzzle is all Greek to me.
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Phrase: Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies
Author: Mother Teresa
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Phrase: Be like looking for a needle in a haystack
Meaning: Be very difficult to find
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Phrase: Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
Meaning: You have to make a choice between two things, but this situation makes you feel bad.
Example:
I cannot choose between you and my boyfriend. I am between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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Phrase: Go through the mill
Meaning: If someone goes through the mill, he or she is having a very bad time, that is, problems. If you put someone through the mill, you make him or her feel bad or unhappy.
Examples:
She has been going through the mill lately. Her son die in a train accident a few months ago, and now her husband wants to divorce her.
The examiner put me through the mill. She asked me very difficult questions. I felt very uneasy.
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Phrase: I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done
Author: Buddha
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Phrase: If the mountain will not go to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain
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Phrase: It went off without a hitch
Meaning: It went well
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Phrase: Make a mountain out of a molehill
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Phrase: Not to be able to find your way out of a paper bag
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Phrase: To go from bad to worse
Meaning: ie to become worse: Soon, the situation went from bad to worse, and we were very frightened
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Phrase: We all have our crosses to bear
Meaning: Everybody has problems, things that make his or her life less happy.
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Phrase: You cannot make an omelette without breaking (a few) eggs
Meaning: In order to achieve a goal, it is at times necessary to take hard decisions, which may affect others negatively.
Example:
I know half the workers will go on the dole, but we can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. It is the company's only chance of survival.
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