单词 | come unstuck |
释义 | come unstuckcome unstuck a) British EnglishBrE informalFAIL if a person, plan, or system comes unstuck, they fail at what they were trying to achieve 〔人、计划、系统〕彻底失败 a dangerous area of rock where many climbers come unstuck 许多攀登者在此止步的危险岩石地带 b) SEPARATEif something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was stuck to 脱落;松开 Examples from the Corpus come unstuck• This week, however, they came unstuck.• Another day we nearly came unstuck altogether.• Where I really came unstuck arguing with von Kranksch was on the subject of crystals.• But even that achievement is now in danger of coming unstuck, as Larry Elliott points out on page 12.• Because many skiers rely on skidding, they come unstuck in deep snow.• Billy says that he first came unstuck in time in 1944, long before his trip to Tralfamadore.• He told about having come unstuck in time.• The layers of secrecy have come unstuck with time. → come unstuck at unstuck(1) |
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