on the ropes

on the ropes

• • 【拳击】(被打得)摇摇晃晃地靠在围绳上；被迫退到围绳上，完全无力回击
  • [俚语]快要支持不住，快垮了，即将完蛋；处于困境；毫无办法

• grin on the other side of one's face
• character
• quarter octagon steel
• red bird
• fgts
• Theodoric
• Oscan
• ceiling
• cowbird
• inordinateness
• owl butterfly
• below strength
• Watergated
• accredit one with
• Boolean operators
• Ursa Minor
• tummytuck
• keep cave
• retd.
• net income
• saw ... off
• enlivened
• survival guilt
• Harkin's rule
• big fat kiss
• spiral-bound
• dashingly
• neurotomes
• somatomammotropin
• horsepond
• sweetbreads
• centesimals
• typicals
• homoeotype
• fenceless
• score out
• countryishes
• bitchier
• pyrobituminoid
• outbred
• put in (或into) reverse
• consumer psychology
• dipterists
• proceed against
• albuminated
• promotable
• subjective probability
• relief printing
• leader label
• leggin
• drapest
• turkish tobaccoes
• pick a hole in sb/sb’s coat
• marine forecast
• dour
• area scan
• mixed forest
• ferric oxide
• neils
• put all cards on the table
• iconcenter
• misoneistic
• cosmologically
• omasa
• bring forth
• right-to-work law
• Teflonated
• Pavlova, Anna
• trolley pole
• kinships
• pyrobitumen
• angiographic
• shell-lacs
• dropperful
• innocent
• sand hoppers
• sympatry
• arrowworms
• jarosite
• ophicalcite
• plastic clay
• pamphrey
• zinj
• Mossis
• Egyptianize
• run (或work) in double harness
• beidas
• pig out (on sth)
• photodrafts
• AOLer
• sound spectrums
• time traveller
• bridging loss
• interminglint
• Reba
• porphyrizing
• zveno
• go off at half cock
• antasthmatic
• andrite