trap
noun/træp/
Слово англійською: trap
Переклад trap українською: западня́, па́стка, па́стка, капка́н
Детальний опис
- a piece of equipment for catching animals
- a fox with its leg in a trap
- A trap was laid, with fresh bait.
- a clever plan designed to trick somebody, either by capturing them or by making them do or say something that they did not mean to do or say
- She had set a trap for him and he had walked straight into it.
- [usually singular] an unpleasant situation from which it is hard to escape
- the unemployment trap
- Some women see marriage as a trap.
- a light carriage with two wheels, pulled by a horse
- a pony and trap
- (slang) mouth synonym gob
- Shut your trap! (= a rude way of telling somebody to be quiet)
- to keep your trap shut (= to not tell a secret)
- a cage from which a greyhound (= a type of dog) is let out at the start of a race
- (also sand trap)(both especially North American English)(also bunker British and North American English)a small area filled with sand on a golf course
for animals
trick
bad situation
carriage
mouth
for racing dog
in golf
Word OriginOld English træppe (in coltetræppe ‘Christ's thorn’); related to Middle Dutch trappe and medieval Latin trappa, of uncertain origin. The verb dates from late Middle English.
Idioms
spring a trap
- to make a trap for catching animals close suddenly
- to try to trick somebody into doing or saying something; to succeed in this
to fall into/avoid the trap of doing something
- to do/avoid doing something that is a mistake but that seems at first to be a good idea
- Parents often fall into the trap of trying to do everything for their children.
- The movie avoids the trap of spending too much time explaining things.