up a stump

up a stump US informal in a situation too difficult for one to manage 〈美, 非正式〉被难住; 陷入困境。

• under repair
• European typhus
• National Endowment for the Arts
• adaptableness
• rhynchonellas
• chargings
• accommodating
• Zosterapidae
• robbin
• chicks
• clos
• understand sth in the proper latitude
• blancmangers
• send someone sprawling
• franchiser
• epicenter
• be in raptures / go into raptures
• in possession of
• pay sth ↔ in
• looing
• Bristol blue
• sketchbooks
• dihalides
• arrow of time（或time's arrow）
• burn up the road
• power ... up
• ossify
• button snakeroots
• imperia
• radioactive equilibrium
• top left / right / centre
• gel electrophoresis
• philopena
• celebutante
• long sea
• Gangtok
• communion cup
• abreast milling
• here today, gone tomorrow
• do a line with
• recyclings
• anelectrics
• vin blanc
• agrobiology
• procaine hydrochlorides
• Abruzzi, Duke of the Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta
• ratifyings
• draw the raw prawn
• bunker hills
• patch cord
• mobility tensor
• vie
• endomitosis
• window-dressings
• Cilicians
• inhalant canal
• Brattain, Waiter Houser
• phonautograph
• intersexually
• gaggier
• Cambrian
• stream load
• plough through
• Transvaal daisy
• defrauder
• be all things to someone
• dragon lizard
• fluorescence yield
• milk chocolates
• drag from
• aymer
• guardianer
• price level
• lay it on the line
• GV
• leap to a conclusion
• phenolases
• consistorian
• snipefishes
• countercurrent
• there wasn't a dry eye in the house
• footmarked
• the City
• ananass
• Sclerodermatales
• diligently
• eggshell
• chifforobe
• rake ... out
• penner
• stampest
• telefotos
• russian roulettes
• ethoxides
• wastepaper basket
• weasel
• whipts
• housey-housey
• veterans' preference
• unvarnished