(idiomatic) In a very difficult position.

(idiomatic) An expression of frustration upon seeing or hearing something bad repeated.

(law, singular only) The rule that prevents a testator or other transferor of property from controlling further transfer of his property more than twenty-one years after the death of anyone alive at the time of the original transfer who may have some interest in the transfer.

plural of rule against perpetuities

Used as request for the interlocutor to repeat what he or she said previously.

(obsolete) To and fro; backwards and forwards.

Often; repeatedly.

Often; repeatedly.

(now rare) To be unfavourable to; to work against.

An individual who refrains from sexual activity, regardless of any past unchaste behavior. / A woman who undergoes a hymenorrhaphy to restore her hymen.