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cornersnounpl. of corner a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapethe writers have gotten themselves into a corner on that TV show binds, boxes, catch-22's(or catch-22s), dilemmas, fixes, holes, impasses, jackpots(chiefly West), jams, mires, pickles, predicaments, quagmires, rabbit holes, rattraps, spots, sticky wickets, swamps difficulties, nodeshot waters, soupspinches, plights, quandaries, scrapes, troublesdeadlocks, halts, logjams, stalemates, standstillsclutches, crises, crossroads, emergencies, exigencies, junctures, straits kettles of fish a place where roads meetwe'll meet at the corner tomorrow carrefours, crossings, crossroads, crossways, intersections, junctions cloverleafs(or cloverleaves), interchanges, overpasses, underpassescircles, rotaries, roundabouts(British), traffic circles a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occursthe president believes that we have turned a corner in the war on drugs climacterics, climaxes, landmarks, mileposts, milestones, turning points, watersheds breaks, cappers, clinchers, crushers, highlights, toppersconversions, metamorphoses, transfigurations, transformations, turnabouts, turnaroundsboiling points, breaking points, clutches, conjunctures, crises, crossroads, crunches, crunch times, Dunkirks, emergencies, exigencies, extremities, flash points, heads, junctures, zero hours |