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(idiomatic, Britain, dated) Hard times; a difficult circumstance, especially bankruptcy. / (idiomatic, Britain, dated) Suspicious circumstances. / (idiomatic, boxing) A stunned condition.

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Queer Street

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Queer Street

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日本語の意味

困難な状況、特に破産や経済的困窮など厳しい条件にある状態 / 疑わしい、または怪しい状況 / ボクシングで、打撃や衝撃を受けた状態、もしくは混乱している状態

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After the company folded, he joked that he was living on Queer Street.

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会社が倒産した後、彼は自分が苦境に立たされていると冗談めかして言った。

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(idiomatic, Britain, dated) Hard times; a difficult circumstance, especially bankruptcy.

But soon they led a Queer-street life, / 'Twas what she'd not expected / Like cat and dog, with snarl and strife, / And love and lamps neglected. / About his work he would not wag

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(idiomatic, Britain, dated) Suspicious circumstances.

I found the wadding of the pistol with which the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn was shot. It was a bit of the printed description of your house at Chesney Wold. Not much in that, you'll say, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet. No. But when my foreign friend here is so thoroughly off her guard as to think it a safe time to tear up the rest of that leaf, and when Mrs. Bucket puts the pieces together and finds the wadding wanting, it begins to look like Queer Street.

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