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kettle of fishphrase a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapeI'm used to paddling, but those rapids are a whole other kettle of fish. bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot(chiefly West), jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait in 1742 |