成语释义

拉一下衣襟就露出胳膊肘儿，形容衣服破烂。比喻顾此失彼，穷于应付。 襟，衣襟；肘，胳膊肘；见，通“现”，呈现、露出。也可比喻成资金、物质条件，以及能力上的匮乏或欠缺。

英文解释

简明释义

pull down one's jacket to conceal the raggedness, only to expose one's elbows；be coming out at the elbows；be hard up；be in straitened circumstances；

例句

捉襟见肘

绸衣接了又接，还是捉襟见肘。

The blue silk coat extends itself again and again but still fails to catch up.

一些欧佩克成员国已将各自捉襟见肘的预算建立在油价比当前水平高20至30美元的基础上。

Some opec member will have too many problems to tackle respectively budget establishment in oil price compared tocurrent level high in20to30us dollars foundations.

但诊断过程往往费时费力，一份测验施测后的计分，以致于如何根据测验的结果进行补救教学，常令教师捉襟见肘，造成施行上的困难3。

And the diagnosis always cost much time and effort, just like scoring the examinations and then conducting the remedialinstruction by the testing result. It always makes the teachers have too many difficulties to cope with, and causing thedifficulties to execute.

由于有些同学在思想上还没有这种认识上的转变，背单词时还停留在一词一义，一词一用的阶段，尽管背了不少单词，做起题来仍然捉襟见肘、处处被动。

Because some schoolmates did not have in this kind of understanding transformation in the thought that carries when theword also pauses in a word righteousness, as soon as a word uses stage, although has carried many words, started thetopic still to have too many problems to tackle, to be everywhere passive.

成语出处

来源出处

先秦·庄子及其后学《庄子·让王》：“曾子居卫，十年不制衣，正冠而缨绝，捉衿而肘见，纳履而踵决。” 

后世据此典故引申出成语“捉襟见肘”。