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捏, 撮, 收缩, 紧急关头, 匮乏, 压力1. a painful or straitened circumstance
2. an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
3. a slight but appreciable addition
同义词：touch, hint, tinge, mite, jot, speck, soupcon
4. a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
同义词：emergency, exigency
5. a small sharp bite or snip
同义词：nip
6. a squeeze with the fingers
同义词：tweak
7. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
同义词：apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody
动词pinch:
1. squeeze tightly between the fingers
同义词：squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch
2. make ridges into by pinching together
同义词：crimp
3. make off with belongings of others
同义词：pilfer, cabbage, purloin, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
4. cut the top off
同义词：top
5. irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
同义词：vellicate
- 习惯用语
- at a pinch 在紧要关头, 必要时
- in a pinch 在紧要关头, 必要时
- on a pinch 在紧要关头, 必要时
- upon a pinch 在紧要关头, 必要时
- drop a pinch of salt on the tail of 捉住某人, 捕获某人
- feel the pinch [口]感到手头拮据
- if it comes to the pinch 一旦危急时, 在必要时
- with a pinch of salt 有保留地, 不全信地
- pinch and save 节衣缩食地攒钱
- pinch and scrape 东拼西凑; 俭省
- pinch on 在...省钱
