Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.

(the) shit hits the fanidiom
a (heavy) cross to bearidiom
a bottomless pitidiom
a cloud on the horizonidiom
a fate worse than deathidiom
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
a narrow squeakidiom
a pretty passidiom
a pretty/fine kettle of fishidiom
a rough rideidiom
a rum doidiom
a torrid timeidiom
abyss
adversity
an elephant in the roomidiom
atyourworstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
ball
banana skin
barrel
be curtains forsomeoneidiom
be dead meatidiom
be in a (pretty) pickleidiom
be in a holeidiom
be in a tight corner/spotidiom
bed
bed of nailsidiom
behind the eight ballidiom
bind
brush
bumpy
burden
can
can of wormsidiom
carry(something)on
catch-22
cesspit
challenge
checkmate
chip
cleft stick
close shave
cloud
clutch
cow
crime
crisis
cross
crown
crunch
crunch time
cul-de-sac
curse
curtain
cut
day
dead
dead end
deadlock
dilemma
double bind
double trouble
double whammy
downer
elephant
emergence
epidemic
eventuality
fate
feeding frenzy
first-world problem
fix
fubar
full nelson
genie
gnarly
go through the millidiom
going
gum tree
half nelson
hard
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
havesomeoneover a barrelidiom
hell
hell on earthidiom
herd
Hobson's choice
hole
hornet's nest
hospital pass
hot box
how
how do you do?idiom
if the worst comes to the worstidiom
ill
imbroglio
impasse
infamy
invasion
it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)idiom
jam
juggling act
Kafkaesque
kettle
let the genie out of the bottleidiom
like herding catsidiom
load
low
makesomeone'sskin crawlidiom
mare
matter
mess
miasma
mill
mire
morass
narrow
nightmare
non-crisis
one of those daysidiom
one-two punch
ordeal
pall
Pandora's box
pass
pestilence
pestilential
pickle
pitilessly
post-crisis
pothole
powder keg
precipice
predicament
pressure point
pretty
prison
problem
pump
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
rabbit hole
reversal
ride
rigour
rock bottom
rollercoaster
row
rub
rub salt in/into the woundidiom
rum
schtuck
scrape
shit
shock
shtook
skin
stalemate
standoff
stench
sticky wicket
strait
straw
the Augean Stablesidiom
the final/last strawidiom
the hard wayidiom
the tip of the icebergidiom
throes
throw
throw(someone)a curve (ball)idiom
tight
time bomb
tip
to crown it allidiom
torrid
torture
toughly
toxic
travail
travails
trial
trials and tribulationsidiom
tribulation
trouble
trouble spot
unbreachable
under the pumpidiom
up
up a gum treeidiom
vicious circle
vortex
when the chips are downidiom
when the going gets rough/toughidiom
witches' brew
woe
worst
worst-case scenario
wrong
you could cut the atmosphere with a knifeidiom

单词	topics/easy-and-difficult/difficult-situations-and-unpleasant-experiences/
释义	Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition. (the) shit hits the fanidiom a (heavy) cross to bearidiom a bottomless pitidiom a cloud on the horizonidiom a fate worse than deathidiom a hard/tough row to hoeidiom a narrow squeakidiom a pretty passidiom a pretty/fine kettle of fishidiom a rough rideidiom a rum doidiom a torrid timeidiom abyss adversity an elephant in the roomidiom atyourworstidiom Augean bad hair day ball banana skin barrel be curtains forsomeoneidiom be dead meatidiom be in a (pretty) pickleidiom be in a holeidiom be in a tight corner/spotidiom bed bed of nailsidiom behind the eight ballidiom bind brush bumpy burden can can of wormsidiom carry(something)on catch-22 cesspit challenge checkmate chip cleft stick close shave cloud clutch cow crime crisis cross crown crunch crunch time cul-de-sac curse curtain cut day dead dead end deadlock dilemma double bind double trouble double whammy downer elephant emergence epidemic eventuality fate feeding frenzy first-world problem fix fubar full nelson genie gnarly go through the millidiom going gum tree half nelson hard hardness have a bumpy rideidiom havesomeoneover a barrelidiom hell hell on earthidiom herd Hobson's choice hole hornet's nest hospital pass hot box how how do you do?idiom if the worst comes to the worstidiom ill imbroglio impasse infamy invasion it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)idiom jam juggling act Kafkaesque kettle let the genie out of the bottleidiom like herding catsidiom load low makesomeone'sskin crawlidiom mare matter mess miasma mill mire morass narrow nightmare non-crisis one of those daysidiom one-two punch ordeal pall Pandora's box pass pestilence pestilential pickle pitilessly post-crisis pothole powder keg precipice predicament pressure point pretty prison problem pump purgatory push factor quagmire quicksand rabbit hole reversal ride rigour rock bottom rollercoaster row rub rub salt in/into the woundidiom rum schtuck scrape shit shock shtook skin stalemate standoff stench sticky wicket strait straw the Augean Stablesidiom the final/last strawidiom the hard wayidiom the tip of the icebergidiom throes throw throw(someone)a curve (ball)idiom tight time bomb tip to crown it allidiom torrid torture toughly toxic travail travails trial trials and tribulationsidiom tribulation trouble trouble spot unbreachable under the pumpidiom up up a gum treeidiom vicious circle vortex when the chips are downidiom when the going gets rough/toughidiom witches' brew woe worst worst-case scenario wrong you could cut the atmosphere with a knifeidiom #https://dictionary.cambridge.org/topics/easy-and-difficult/difficult-situations-and-unpleasant-experiences/##
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