Idiom
have a tiger by the tail
Meaning
To be in a difficult or dangerous situation in which one ideally should not remain, but from which one cannot withdraw.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I have a tiger by the tail with this new project.”
“He took on the massive company merger, but now he realizes he has a tiger by the tail.”
“By involving himself in such a volatile political scandal, the senator soon discovered he had a tiger by the tail and could not easily withdraw.”
Examples
simple
“I have a tiger by the tail with this new project.”
contextual
“He took on the massive company merger, but now he realizes he has a tiger by the tail.”
complex
“By involving himself in such a volatile political scandal, the senator soon discovered he had a tiger by the tail and could not easily withdraw.”
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