lobster pot
A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster…A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting.
» It's cruel to put a live lobster into a pot of boiling water.
Es ist grausam, einen lebenden Hummer in einen Topf mit kochendem Wasser zu werfen!
Это жестоко — запихивать живого омара в кастрюлю с кипящей водой.
Meaning
3 sensesA trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting.
Hummerfalle
Synonym of lobster-tailed pot (“kind of helmet”).
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lobster, pot: a pot for cooking a lobster in.
- trap for catching lobsters
Examples
2 sentencesIt's cruel to put a live lobster into a pot of boiling water.
ruЭто жестоко — запихивать живого омара в кастрюлю с кипящей водой. — Karok
deEs ist grausam, einen lebenden Hummer in einen Topf mit kochendem Wasser zu werfen! — Pfirsichbaeumchen
It’s like the lobster pot analogy, easy to get into, hard to get out of.