a pretty kettle of fish

a pretty kettle of fish

• • 局面；困境，窘境
  • 棘手的事；一团糟
  • 乱七八糟

• chimney-breasts
• applaud（或cheer）someone to the echo
• bondholdings
• like a man/woman possessed
• catch on (to sth)
• pop your clogs
• clearer
• coteach
• the riverside
• the nineties
• cannas
• Africanising
• antivenene
• blewit
• chiton
• strip of
• approximation
• cover up one’s tracks
• blowsies
• Averroist
• of no name
• (just) around / round the corner
• talk sth down
• butterball
• amphiploid
• behaviouralist
• smokeless tobacco
• azarole
• in touch (with sb)
• bite the thumb s at someone
• beret
• Chamberlain, Sir Austen
• conjecture
• (all) to yourself
• alarmable
• on your back
• contemptibilities
• no matter what
• card clothing
• legalities
• civil service
• annotatings
• catering
• and things
• complex ions
• ball-bearings
• alveola
• blow at a cold coal
• put sb/sth on the map
• chicaner
• sit up late
• proceed against
• answer generals
• bumper sticker
• have (time) off
• Crimea
• bozette
• Crow Jim
• chemurgic
• barebacker
• consult with
• crosslights
• bear resemblance to
• Adidases
• cross-filer
• cell membrane
• Calamitales
• at the drop of a hat
• by stages
• get off with the skin of one’s teeth
• basket winding
• be history
• ply sb with questions
• bone shaker
• bottle test
• make the best of things
• always assuming / supposing (that) sth
• to the letter
• bridalty
• be au fait with sth
• Anzio bridgehead
• let sb off (sth)
• classicality
• confining
• switch sth↔off/on
• abortionists
• a brick short of a load （或two sandwiches short of a picnic, etc.）
• adst.feb.
• brewiss
• as well (as sb/sth)
• bioecological
• give point to
• Heaven / God / who / goodness knows!
• to that extent
• benevolent
• botryomycoses
• Biblism
• begot 或 begat
• by hook or crook
• bossets