fly in the ointment

隐患蝇头小利苍蝇效应隐忧

fly in the ointment 的定义

  1. A drawback, especially one that was not at first apparent: “Sharon's lack of experience turned out to be the fly in the ointment when she applied for the job.”

fly in the ointment 近义词

fly in the ointment

等同于 stumbling block

fly in the ointment

等同于 catch

fly in the ointment 的近义词 12
fly in the ointment 的反义词 2
fly in the ointment

等同于 disadvantage(s)

fly in the ointment

等同于 drawback

更多fly in the ointment例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  4. Andrew still plans to fly to Davos in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum on January 21, representing the British government.
  5. This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
  6. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  7. Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
  8. The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.
  9. So far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.
  10. Their jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.