英语词汇at low tide的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	at low tide
词源	at low tide. To be at low tide or water or the low watermark is to have financial difficulties, or no money at all, as if one were stranded by the ebbing tide. Nautical slang in origin and dating back to the early 17th century, the expression is Standard En- glish today.
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