La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre los Problemas y Dificultades:
Overturn/upset the applecart | Hole-in-the corner |
Have your back to the wall | Hole-and-corner |
A baptism of fire | In a hole |
A double bind | Need sth like a hole in the head |
Bite off more than you can chew | Stir up a hornet’s nest |
A stumbling block | Like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall |
Like getting blood out of a stone/turnip | A Gordian knot |
Rock the boat | Not have a leg to stand on |
Bear the brunt of sth | dead meat |
On the bubble | Go/put through the mill |
Put/set the cat among the pigeons | A millstone around your neck |
A Catch | Have a monkey on your back |
Chicken and egg | A mountain to climb |
(when) the chips are down | A tall order |
A vicious circle | Growing pains |
In a (tight) corner | A Pandora’s box |
Box/paint sb into a corner | Be no picnic |
Count the cost | Jump the rails |
Up shit creek | A bumpy/rough ride |
Up the creek (without a paddle) | Between a rock and a hard place |
A cross to bear | A hard/tough row to hoe |
Throw sb a curve (ball) | In deep shit |
Curve balls | In the shit |
Plumb the depths | The shit hits the fan |
In Dutch | On the skids |
The eye of the storm | Your ass in a sling |
Up to the eyeballs | In the soup |
Blow up in your face | Put/throw a spanner in the works |
Explode in your face | Put a spoke in sb’s wheel |
The fat is in the fire | On the spot |
Get your fingers burned | In a cleft stick |
Burn your fingers | Clutch/grasp at straws |
The fly in the ointment | A drowning man will clutch at a straw |
Put your foot in it | In Queer Streets |
Put your foot in your mouth | Like pulling teeth |
Out of the frying pan into the fire | Teething problems/troubles |
Add fuel to the fire/flames | In deep/hot water |
The genie is out of the bottle | Fish in troubled waters |
Let the genie out of the bottle | Make waves |
An own goal | A tangled web |
Up a gum tree | (bat) on a sticky wicket |
hang sb out to dry | swing/twist in the wind |
Be/get in over your head | out of the woods |
Go through hell | have your work cut out |
Put sb through hell | a bag/can of worms |
Play (merry) hell (with sth) | throw a (monkey) wrench into the works |
There’ll be (merry) hell to pay | go through the wringer |
Through/to hell and back | be put through the wringer |
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