苦し紛れ

苦し紛れ
くるしまぎれ【苦し紛れ】
¶彼は~にうそをついた
Driven into a corner, he told a lie.
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くるしまぎれ【苦し紛れ】

苦しまぎれに in (the excess of) one's pain; driven by pain [distress]; 〔破れかぶれで〕 in desperation; as a last resort; 〔やむをえず〕 under the pressure of necessity

・苦しまぎれにうそを言ったのです. Driven into a corner, I had to tell a lie.

・奴は苦しまぎれにどんなことをするか知れない. There's no knowing what he would do when he's desperate.

苦しまぎれの desperate; last-resort

・苦しまぎれの言いのがれ a last-ditch excuse

・苦しまぎれの策がうまくいった. That desperate measure succeeded.


Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.

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