sticky wicket

Example Sentences

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“My advice is to not get tangled up with the law to begin with. Once you do, it’s a sticky wicket, that’s for sure! Not easy to extricate oneself, har har.”

From Literature

"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