in a pickle

短语

处境艰难,处境尴尬;肮脏的,邋遢的

发音

US

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    In a difficult situation or a troubling quandary.

    习语 非正式

词源

The term refers to being in pickling solution, presumably unpleasant. It was first used in English by William Shakespeare in The Tempest (1611), although the phrase had been used in Dutch earlier.

来源：wiktionary