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kettles of fishphrasepl. of kettle of fish 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. 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, sticky wickets, swamps difficulties, nodeshot waters, soupspinches, plights, quandaries, scrapes, troublesdeadlocks, halts, logjams, stalemates, standstillsclutches, crises, crossroads, emergencies, exigencies, junctures, straits |