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tricky situation

noun as in sticky wicket

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“And even Hezbollah is in a really tricky situation. It doesn’t want to die because of decisions made by Hamas.”

One “tricky situation”, as Isak stoically puts it, came the day before they spoke to the BBC.

From BBC

You can access a reaction from someone to get attention or to deflect in a tricky situation.

It's a tricky situation, and so you have to create that space.

From Salon

Which is to say that it’s a pretty tricky situation, but at least we can have a chuckle about the fact that the burden of resolving it has fallen to Chief Justice John Roberts.

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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