up a gum tree

up a gum tree Brit. informal in or into a predicament 〈英, 非正式〉处于困境; 陷入困境： offers of devolution will lead ministers straight up a gum tree. 权力下放会让大臣们直接陷入困境。

• octillionth
• tourist trap
• AIDS belt
• inflammatories
• scokes
• straight off（或out）
• hypertense
• matriclinous
• uher
• rim saw
• bousoukia
• sharpenest
• put in hand
• appanage
• like herrings in a barrel
• lady of frying-pan
• racialists
• approachability
• languish of
• Bartlett, Josiah
• tumbler gear
• sick-in
• steal a glance/look at
• 2,4,6,-collidine
• glugging
• ginger blotch
• slings and arrows
• penny press
• scaremongerer
• NREM sleep
• confused sea
• archegonia
• cushites
• vailer
• underlings
• tall, dark, and handsome
• ordinal number
• brain-damaged
• concrete pump
• cystocarcinoma
• orogene
• scissortails
• come a long way
• technocracies
• newbuilding
• by the name of
• zenanas
• mol.wt.
• semibasement
• cook-general
• vealy
• trochoidal
• do the necessary
• lysergides
• excise
• radioimmunoassays
• cartilaginous
• scratchably
• singulars
• periodic
• political commissar
• suc.
• parriest
• trilobal
• dot-coms
• bounce along
• a thorny question / problem / issue etc
• get off lightly
• have（或 keep） one's finger on the pulse
• scampered
• source address
• new chums
• fetch a pump
• The deuce you he can
• antismoking
• virus busting
• Bhamo
• mildewed
• swollen-headed
• muscarinism
• indolency
• hypochlorization
• steelmakers
• parochial school
• Spartanising
• orthogonalised
• the Home Office
• adrenal-cortical
• globoseness
• tauromachian
• fee-faw-fums
• corporate disco
• plead the baby act
• kindly
• go about one’s business
• with one's back to (或 against) the wall
• grangerisation
• bloodless
• Discordia
• not worth a snap