| 词汇 | hair in the butter |
| 词源 | hair in the butter. A very delicate or sensitive situation. This Americanism dating from the early 20th century refers to the difficulty of removing a single hair from a piece of butter. Wrote Molly Ivins in Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She? (1991): “The Great Iranian Arms Caper is not only hair in the butter, I’d say someone’s thrown a skunk in the churchhouse as well.” |
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