Trump’s personal physician, Sean Conley, said the president met the discharge requirements but was “not entirely be out of the woods yet”.From the headline of this article at The Guardian.
上記の文で、out of the woodsの意味は?
In the sentence above, what does "out of the woods" mean?
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解答
意味:英辞郎によると、
森の中から出て、困難を脱して、危険を免れて
Answer
According to The Cambridge Dictionary:not having a problem or difficulty any longer:
Examples
- It's too soon to say if either airline is out of the woods yet.
- Her surgery went as well as we could have hoped, but she's not out of the woods yet.
- If our sales stay strong, we should be out of the woods by the next quarter.
- The company is by no means out of the woods. Times, Sunday Times (2012)
- But we are not out of the woods yet. The Sun (2014)
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