on thin ice

如履薄冰冰火两重天如履薄冰的坚如磐石

on thin ice 的定义

  1. In a precarious or risky position, as in After failing the midterm, he was on thin ice with his math teacher. This metaphor is often rounded out as skate on thin ice, as in He knew he was skating on thin ice when he took his rent money with him to the racetrack. This idiom, which alludes to the danger that treading on thin ice will cause it to break, was first used figuratively by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay Prudence: “In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”

on thin ice 近义词

on thin ice

等同于 insecure

on thin ice

等同于 perilous

on thin ice

等同于 precarious

on thin ice

等同于 risky

on thin ice

等同于 uncertain

on thin ice

等同于 unsafe

on thin ice

等同于 unapt

on thin ice

等同于 crucial

on thin ice

等同于 doubtful

更多on thin ice例句

  1. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  2. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  3. You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
  4. It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
  5. Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.
  6. This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.
  7. He leant against the wall of his refuge, notwithstanding this boast, and licked the ice to moisten his parched lips.
  8. The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.
  9. A long stretch of smooth ice followed, over which he glided with ever-increasing speed.
  10. Profiting by this, Benjy quietly moved away round a colossal buttress of the berg, and took refuge in an ice-cave.