Thesaurus results for STICKY WICKET

sticky wicket

noun

as in dilemma

a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape with both sets of in-laws insisting that we spend Thanksgiving with them, we were on a sticky wicket indeed

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Recent Examples of sticky wicket That third spot is a sticky wicket for a team projected to be just outside the top five in the game. —

Eno Sarris, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025 By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK published 18 September 2024 A cricketing powerhouse for decades, Pakistan's national team have suddenly found themselves on a sticky wicket. —

Harriet Marsden, theweek, 18 Sep. 2024 Much of its lexicon sounds both unapproachable and, well, just weird: sticky wicket, googly, yorker, jaffa, daisy cutter, silly mid off, maiden over, tickle, nurdle, trundler, paddle scoop, popping crease, golden duck. —

Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 25 July 2024 While reforms have been proposed in the past under other leaders, they have gotten caught up in a sticky wicket of state bureaucracy. —

Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024 The situation is a sticky wicket, to use an old-fashioned term from the sport of cricket, for the countless interest groups that depend on money from the budget. —

Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 4 May 2024 In contrast, altering and editing an image can be a much more nuanced process that makes determining what part is from humans a sticky wicket. —

Drew McLellan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023 As with all questions of volcanic behaviour, the real sticky wicket is timing. —

Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023 Ant Group are currently on a sticky wicket. —

Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2021

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Noun

The Freaky Friday homeowner’s dilemma is, unfortunately, not uncommon for those who lost homes in the Palisades and Eaton Fires.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025
Another possibility: Trump’s blueprint could drive inflation higher while also weakening the economy – an unusual tandem that would pose a vexing dilemma for the Fed.

— Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025