the pits

短语

[网络] 维修加油站；不好的；最恶劣的地方

词形变化

only 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something miserable or unpleasant.

    仅复数 俚语

    This whole experience has been the pits.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

hell inferno hellhole hell on earth snakepit

上位词 2

part region

词源

Theorized to be a shortened form of armpits, i.e., somewhere or something unpleasant or undesirable. First use appears c. 1953. See cite below.

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