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/Sounds like "EHN" (as in "egg") + "EHL" (as in "egg") + "OHR" (as in "oh") + "noh" (as in "note")/
In a very compromised situation with no easy way out. Estar en el horno is the worst-case scenario: things have gone as bad as they can go and there is no obvious escape.
“If the payment does not come through tomorrow, we are toast.”
“He put himself in a terrible spot with that decision and now there is no going back.”
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/Sounds like "EHN" (as in "egg") + "EHL" (as in "egg") + "OHR" (as in "oh") + "noh" (as in "note")/
In a very compromised situation with no easy way out. Estar en el horno is the worst-case scenario: things have gone as bad as they can go and there is no obvious escape.
“If the payment does not come through tomorrow, we are toast.”
“He put himself in a terrible spot with that decision and now there is no going back.”
Mandadero
Someone who blindly does whatever they are told without questioning it or thinking for themselves. Used dismissively to describe a person who is completely under their boss or superior thumb, a yes-man with no backbone.