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sticky wicket
noun as in difficult situation
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"Now, that is proving more of a sticky wicket," she said.
From BBC
“The Supreme Court now is really in a sticky wicket, of historical proportions, of constitutional dimensions, to a degree that I don’t think we’ve ever really seen before,” said Steve Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
From Seattle Times
“It could end up being a very sticky wicket” for some patients to access care, she said.
From Seattle Times
Asteroids are a notoriously sticky wicket.
From Washington Post
This, then, is the sticky wicket.
From Slate
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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