sticky wicket

“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.

“It could end up being a very sticky wicket” for some patients to access care, she said.

Asteroids are a notoriously sticky wicket.

This, then, is the sticky wicket.

The region had overwhelmingly voted for the BJP in the last polls in 2017, but this time they are on a sticky wicket.