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sticky wicketnoun a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapewith both sets of in-laws insisting that we spend Thanksgiving with them, we were on a sticky wicket indeed bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot(chiefly West), jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, swamp difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait kettle of fish in 1950 |