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sticky wicketsnounpl. of sticky wicket 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 binds, boxes, catch-22's(or catch-22s), corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, impasses, jackpots(chiefly West), jams, mires, pickles, predicaments, quagmires, rabbit holes, rattraps, spots, swamps difficulties, nodeshot waters, soupspinches, plights, quandaries, scrapes, troublesdeadlocks, halts, logjams, stalemates, standstillsclutches, crises, crossroads, emergencies, exigencies, junctures, straits kettles of fish |