汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 捉襟见肘
捉襟见肘 (捉襟見肘)
lit. pulling on the lapels exposes the elbows (idiom) / strapped for cash / unable to make ends meet
Pulling the placket, revealing the elbow / Describe the tattered clothes / It is an analogy of taking care of this and losing the other, and being too poor to deal with it
见"捉衿见肘"。
zhuō jīn () jiàn/xiàn zhǒu
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

相比之下,麦凯恩的资金则捉襟见肘

Mr McCain, by contrast, is running on financial fumes.

但生物科技泡沫的破灭使它们捉襟见肘

But the bursting of the biotech bubble has left them starved of cash.

他们无一改善其捉襟见肘、无效的警力。

None has much improved its overstretched, ineffectual police force.

您有份不错的薪水,但仍感觉捉襟见肘

You have a nice salary, but you still feel short of money.

作者在海德拉巴城外乡村看到的捉襟见肘小店就是一个例子。

The threadbare inventory the authors discovered in the village store outside Hyderabad is only one example.

斯帕莱蒂教练一直在保护这位年轻新秀,但罗马队内的伤病情况让他用兵捉襟见肘

Luciano Spalletti may be keen to protect his young starlet but Roma's injury woes have thrown him into the deep end a little sooner than expected.