| 释义 |
draw the short straw draw the short straw1 → draw the short straw at draw1(15) used to say that someone has been unlucky because they were chosen to do something that no one else wanted to do2 → draw/get the short straw at short1(11) to be given something difficult or unpleasant to do, especially when other people have been given something betterdraw the short straw |