out on limb
走投无路,孤军奋战,孤注一掷,走投无路的人
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Definitions
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- : a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing: the lower limbs; artificial limbs.
- : a large or main branch of a tree.
- : a projecting part or member: the four limbs of a cross.
- : a person or thing regarded as a part, member, branch, offshoot, or scion of something: a limb of the central committee.
- : Archery. the upper or lower part of a bow.
- : Informal. a mischievous child, imp, or young scamp.
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- : to cut the limbs from.
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Examples
They’ve got an extra set of limbs — two human arms plus four horse legs.
The reps are performed slowly, taking ten seconds up and ten seconds down, without locking the limbs or resting at the top or bottom of the motion.
Just wrap it around a green limb bent into a circle and face it into the sun.
A 2019 meta-analysis found no benefits to muscle strength, and another 2019 meta-analysis found benefits to upper limb but not lower limb muscle strength.
Her hair’s a mess, her limbs are streaked with blood, and there’s a ball-busting steeliness in her eyes.
Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
Mating with a cousin or brother is safer than risking life and limb to mate with an outsider.
“We can do anything here from open heart surgery to limb amputations,” he says.
Some might want to be the star, others to direct, but it takes a special breed to want to risk life and limb as a stuntman.
So now, keeping all that in mind, how many Afghans do you think risked life and limb to cast their ballot?
The secretary trembled in his every limb; his eyes shunned his master's as his master's had shunned Garnache's awhile ago.
"You have give a limb," repeated Perry, emphasizing the announcement by shaking his finger at the old man.
Those in favor of hanging carried the day, so he was led under the projecting limb of a tree and a rope placed around his neck.
Scattergood, with great show of solicitude, dispatched a youngster to the deacon's house for his extra limb.