"behind the eight ball" = "난처한 상황에 놓인"

"behind the eight ball"은

"난처한 상황에 놓인,

다른 사람보다 안좋은 상황에 놓인"

이라는 뜻을 가진 

이디엄입니다.

 

아래 대화를 통해 그 사용법과

다른 이디엄을 익혀봅시다.

 

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Chris: I'm behind the eight ball*.

 

 

 

Ben: What's the matter?

 

 

 

Chris: I have so much work.

I can't make a dent in it.

 

(make a dent in something: 

~을 진척시키다)

 

 

 

Ben: Maybe if you'd buckle down,

you wouldn't be up your ears in work.

 

(buckle down: 본격적으로 착수하다)

 

(be up to one's ears in something:

~에 눈코 뜰 사이 없다)

 

 

 

Chris: My job is no bed of roses

and my boss is off his rocker.

 

(no bed of roses: 만만하지 않다)

 

(off one's rocker: 미치다)

 

 

 

Ben: You'd better watch your P's and Q's

before you get canned.

 

(watch one's P's and Q's:

언행을 조심하다)

 

(get canned: 해고되다)

 

 

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* behind the eight ball 

 

= 

 

in a difficult situation

or

in a worse situation than other people

 

(난처한 상황에 놓이거나

다른 사람들보다 안좋은 상황에 놓인)

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(예문)

 

If you don't get the investigation going right away,

you put yourself behind the eight ball.

 

(당장 조사를 받지 않으면 넌

난처한 상황을 맞이할거야!)

 

<자료: Cambridge Dictionary>