tiger by the tail 的定义
- Something too difficult to manage or cope with, as in You know nothing about the commodities market; you'll end up catching a tiger by the tail. This colorful metaphor conjures up the image of grabbing a powerful but fierce animal by the tail, only to have it turn on one. [Second half of 1900s]
tiger by the tail 近义词
等同于 mania
tiger by the tail 的近义词 38 个
- craving
- craze
- craziness
- dementia
- enthusiasm
- fad
- fascination
- frenzy
- infatuation
- lunacy
- obsession
- passion
- rage
- aberration
- bee
- bug
- compulsion
- delirium
- derangement
- desire
- disorder
- fancy
- fetish
- furor
- grabber
- hang-up
- insanity
- monomania
- partiality
- preoccupation
- thing
- tiger
- ax to grind
- bee in bonnet
- bug in ear
- fixed idea
- idée fixe
- on the brain
tiger by the tail 的反义词 8 个
等同于 obsession
等同于 compulsion
tiger by the tail 的近义词 21 个
- coercion
- obsession
- preoccupation
- urgency
- constraint
- demand
- drive
- driving
- duress
- duty
- engrossment
- exigency
- force
- hang-up
- monkey
- necessity
- need
- prepossession
- pressure
- urge
- have on the brain
tiger by the tail 的反义词 5 个
更多tiger by the tail例句
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- All of the big cats have a special mystique, but perhaps none more so than the tiger.
- The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
- John was baptizing at a large pool called Ænon-by-Saleim,—probably allegorical, meaning “Fountain of Repose.”
- The dog stood with hanging head and tail, as if ashamed he had let so many of his enemies get away unharmed.
- The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.