up a tree

up a tree informal, chiefly N. Amer. in a difficult situation without escape; cornered 〈非正式, 主北美〉陷于困境的; 被逼至困境的。

• dorsal decubitus
• kara kums
• verruca vulgaris
• welfare state
• wood hyacinths
• take the bit and the buffet with it
• wither sb with a look
• pyosis
• ideal gas
• clear ice
• Mandalay
• quite (或 really) something
• copper-coloured
• potassium stannate
• overhead projection
• mammilla
• get to thinking / wondering sth
• Monophysitic
• farmettes
• ultramicrotome
• Enler
• dizygosity
• excortications
• Bren
• half shell
• abacus harmonious
• TKG
• choffer
• pearls
• gallize
• tetravalency
• inbreathings
• dobutamines
• candlefishes
• hypoglottis
• calorimeter
• ascorbic
• triniscopes
• appendiculate
• alveolates
• well-paying
• trial balloons
• chairlifts
• cast oneself on
• patsys
• Willie the Wisp
• nidging
• heliotropic
• ferric
• tape library
• self-excitation
• maximizations
• wiresmith
• stanhopes
• be well, badly, etc. turned out
• dinginess
• honourable mention
• mivvy
• grovier
• underglazes
• Mollier diagram
• sceneshifter
• avars
• Piccinni, Niccolò
• dark humour
• one-legged
• tochises
• altithermal soil
• deboard
• transitivizer
• ians
• slum
• disclaimer
• to be calculated
• ilseless
• North Borneo
• diphenol
• oppositive
• Marquess of Queensbery rules
• mixed reaction / response / reviews etc
• victoryless
• telltale compass
• lithographer
• sponge out
• eneutrinos
• not care a cent
• brimstone
• believe someone's bare word
• uremic
• phonogrammic
• sunderable
• ding
• with clean hands
• glycosidase
• glide bombing
• zooxanthela
• kempites
• alumetized
• morcellated
• sopranos