idiom(alsoget into hot water)to be in or get into adifficultsituationin which you are indangerof beingcriticizedorpunished:陷入困境;惹上麻烦Hefoundhimself inhotwaterover hiscommentsaboutimmigration.他发现自己针对移民事务发表的那些言论给自己惹上了麻烦。SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesExperiencing difficulties
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be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom
be climbing the wallsidiom
be for the high jumpidiom
be/come up against a brick wallidiom
embattled
fall intosomething
flounder
frying pan
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not have a leg to stand onidiom
on a razor edgeidiom
out of the frying pan into the fireidiom
pickle
rocky
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