| 释义 | under the pumpidiominformalUK and Australian English
 in a difficult situation or feeling a lot of pressure:
 When his team are under the pump he generally comes up with a few good ideas.
 I am feeling a little under the pump to lose weight before the wedding.
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
 a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
 abyss
 adversity
 at your worstidiom
 Augean
 bad hair day
 epidemic
 half nelson
 hardness
 have a bumpy rideidiom
 pall
 prison
 purgatory
 push factor
 quagmire
 quicksand
 scrape
 strait
 the Augean Stablesidiom
 the hard wayidiom
 
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