| 释义 | if/when push comes to shoveidiom
 C2
 If something can be done if push comes to shove, it can be done if the situation becomes so bad that you have to do it: 一旦情况紧急,不得已时
 If push comes to shove, we can always sell the car.实在不行我们还可以把车卖了。
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Essential or necessary
 a man's gotta do what a man's gotta doidiom
 baked in
 basically
 basis
 be a question of doing somethingidiom
 box ticking
 elemental
 gotta
 hang
 hang on/upon something
 have occasion to do somethingidiom
 if need beidiom
 meat and potatoesidiom
 necessary
 necessary evil
 necessitate
 owe
 symbiosis
 symbiotic
 symbiotically
 
 
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