dire straits

English

Noun

1. A difficult position.

   After being shipwrecked on the island, we were in dire straits.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:difficult situation

Translations

difficult position

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水深火熱／水深火热 (zh) (shuǐshēnhuǒrè), 水深火热 (zh) (shuǐshēnhuǒrè)

• Dutch: in het nauw
• Finnish: vaikeudet pl, hankaluudet pl; ahtaalla (adverb: in dire straits); kiipeli (informal)
• French: mauvaise passe (fr) f
• German: (verzweifelte) Notlage (de) f
• Hungarian: szükséghelyzet
• Japanese: 四苦八苦 (ja) (しくはっく, shikuhakku)
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• Norwegian: urent farvann n
• Polish: tarapaty (pl) pl
• Portuguese: apuro (pt) m, aperto (pt) m
• Russian: отча́янное положе́ние n (otčájannoje položénije), бе́дственное положе́ние n (bédstvennoje položénije), больша́я беда́ f (bolʹšája bedá)
• Serbo-Croatian: u škripcu
• Spanish: gran aprieto
• Swedish: trångmål (sv)