knee-deep in the Big Muddy

形容词 adj.
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英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Stuck in a predicament; mired in a difficult situation, especially one resulting from poor judgment or bad leadership. US,idiomatic
    — Polls show three-quarters of the people don't want us to invade Haiti. Nonetheless, it appears we're about to go knee-deep in the Big Muddy.

词形变化

waist-deep in the Big Muddy alternative

词源

From Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (1967), a folk song by Pete Seeger, protesting the war in Vietnam.
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