sticky wicket
a difficult situation
TRANSLATION
sticky wicket = eine schwierige Situation --- GOOGLE INDEX sticky wicket: approximately 1,800,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Tax Reform - a STICKY WICKET
(Los Angeles Times - News Headline)
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With a few honourable exceptions, politicians nearly always seek cross-party consensus when they know they're on a STICKY WICKET.
(The Guardian)
(Los Angeles Times - News Headline)
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With a few honourable exceptions, politicians nearly always seek cross-party consensus when they know they're on a STICKY WICKET.
(The Guardian)
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sticky wicket
noun phrase
- a difficult situation
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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A sticky wicket indeed
One evening the cricket writer E. T. Smith found himself at a party in New York's SoHo district:
An Italian graphic designer was going on about how dull and boring baseball is: "I never thought I would say this, but baseball is even worse than cricket."
When it was pointed out that the man he was speaking to was a cricketer who had come to America to write a book about baseball, the charmer said: "So what else is wrong with you?"
Origin: In cricket, the wicket is the playing surface, or pitch. After it rains and when the wicket starts to dry, it becomes sticky, making it difficult to play on. Thus in a figurative sense a sticky wicket is a difficult situation.
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SYNONYMS
touchy situation, tight spot, a can of worms, a snake pit, predicament
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If I don't deliver this report on time, I'll be on a sticky wicket."
noun phrase
- a difficult situation
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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A sticky wicket indeed
One evening the cricket writer E. T. Smith found himself at a party in New York's SoHo district:
An Italian graphic designer was going on about how dull and boring baseball is: "I never thought I would say this, but baseball is even worse than cricket."
When it was pointed out that the man he was speaking to was a cricketer who had come to America to write a book about baseball, the charmer said: "So what else is wrong with you?"
Origin: In cricket, the wicket is the playing surface, or pitch. After it rains and when the wicket starts to dry, it becomes sticky, making it difficult to play on. Thus in a figurative sense a sticky wicket is a difficult situation.
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SYNONYMS
touchy situation, tight spot, a can of worms, a snake pit, predicament
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If I don't deliver this report on time, I'll be on a sticky wicket."
