憂き目

うきめ【憂き目】

¶経済破綻(^たん)の～にあう

suffer ［meet with］ financial reverses.

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うきめ【憂き目】

●事故の憂き目にあう be unfortunately involved [come to grief] in an accident

・私はなんとかリストラの憂き目にあわずに済んだ. I somehow managed to avoid the miseries of rationalization.

●憂き目を見る come to grief [woe]; suffer misery 《from…》; go through hardships; have a hard [trying, thin] time (of it)

・このことのために君はいずれ憂き目を見るだろう. You will come to grief over this.

●父さえ生きていたらこんな憂き目は見なかったろうに. If only my father were alive, I should not have found myself in such a plight.