when the chips are down

when the chips are down

• [美国英语]在紧要关头，在危急中；当某人经受考验的时候

• addiction research
• put one's hand up
• come into question
• rewaked或rewoke
• auspicated
• aparejo
• eternal life
• dealkalized
• thoughtless
• Rig-Veda
• at your pleasure
• lard
• plain as the nose on your face
• road show
• vibratos
• St. Andrew
• diamond point
• catch wind of
• sinistropedal
• star-streaming
• say the word
• clean your teeth
• start off on the wrong foot with
• devirginated
• honour a cheque
• necrophore
• swearer-in
• seal point
• attic storey
• hog cholera
• petty criminal / thief etc
• Abel
• hypersaline
• information flow
• in all
• militias
• thought-reading
• chemico-
• gaff-topsails
• pale imitation (of sth)
• winter-talus ridge
• cyanogenic
• sticks and stones may break my bones but names（或words）will never hurt me
• plaques
• direct-broadcasting satellite system
• lebkuchens
• hard as a flint
• devildoms
• first-string / second-string etc
• fill
• ground absorption
• Mariana
• consultant
• goldeye
• self-portraits
• inguinal
• parishes
• negatons
• interweaver
• just one of those things
• atmo
• the old school tie
• ferredoxins
• toughie
• midi
• rathest
• flue pipe
• divested
• impression cylinder
• playground
• self-insurances
• sidewhiskered
• peakers
• lovest
• metatroph
• Ba(a)lshem
• protesters
• abdominal muscle deficiency syndrome
• micrometeorology
• lenders
• Dux.
• decolourize
• in business
• it's early days (yet)
• biplane
• take a rise from someone
• strontium chlorate
• red-bait
• sentimentalises
• breathe a new life into
• suit the actions to one's words
• conventionalising
• scuba
• perlustrating
• Pacific air route
• monolithism
• talarias
• restorings
• Carterite
• brazen it out