| 单词 | fly in the ointment |
| 释义 | fly in the ointmentasinglething orpersonthat isspoilingasituationthat could have been verypositiveorenjoyable: 美中不足之处；令人扫兴的东西（或人）I'mlookingforwardtoSunday, the onlyflyin theointmentbeing thefactthat I'll have tositnext to mymother-in-law.我期待着星期日的到来，唯一令人不快的是，到时我必须坐在丈母娘旁边。 Difficult things and people
fly in the ointment| American Dictionaryfly in the ointmentsomething thatspoilsasituationthat could have beenpleasant: Thepartywasgreat– the only fly in theointmentwas that mygrumpyunclewas there. Examplesoffly in the ointmentfly in the ointment There is, however, aflyintheointment. From theCambridge English Corpus There is aflyintheointment, however. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English Paragraph (c) is theflyintheointment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The filling up of this form is the oneflyintheointmentat the moment because it takes too long. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 From my point of view there was aflyintheointment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is, however, oneflyintheointmenthere. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 However, there is a majorflyintheointment, for though there are many conscientious developers there are undoubtedly cowboys jumping on to the bandwagon. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The onlyflyintheointmentis the decision by a majority in committee to call for additional anti-discrimination regulations. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English But there is aflyintheointment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 But there is aflyintheointmentand that fly is becoming a nasty sore. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is, however, aflyintheointment—only a small fly, but it should be dealt with. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, for my group, incorporation in the report on visas of the report on biometrics looked like aflyintheointment. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English Let me also point out that there is aflyintheointment. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English However, there is oneflyintheointment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 To my mind theflyintheointmentis the 60-year redemption period. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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