Significado: in straitsen estrechos (sin salida, entre la espada y la pared)
desperate straits Idioma
in dire straits
in debt, having no money If we don't get a good crop this year, we'll be in dire straits.
desperate straits
A actual difficult situation. The noun “strait,” usually in the plural (straits), has been acclimated back the 1600s to beggarly a bind of some kind. One of the ancient pairings with “desperate” was in Harriet Martineau’s The History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace (1849): “Never were Whig rulers bargain to added atrocious straits.” Today the appellation is acclimated both actively and ironically, as in “We’re in atrocious straits today—the bi-weekly never arrived.” Learn more: desperate, straitLearn more:
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