sticky wicket

sticky wicket

noun

Definition of STICKY WICKET

: a difficult or delicate problem or situation

Examples of STICKY WICKET

1. It's a bit of a sticky wicket.
2. She was on a sticky wicket when she saw her friend steal the fund-raiser money.

First Known Use of STICKY WICKET

1882

Related to STICKY WICKET

Synonyms: bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, predicament, swamp

Related Words: difficulty, node; hot water, soup; pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble; deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill; clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait

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Rhymes with STICKY WICKET

season ticket