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词汇 sticky-wicket
释义 sticky wicket
noun[ Cusually singular ]
UKuk /ˌstɪk.i ˈwɪk.ɪt/ us /ˌstɪk.i ˈwɪk.ɪt/
a difficult situation: 困境,窘境
This is something of a sticky wicket you've got us into.你让我们陷入了困境。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
abyss
adversity
at your worstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
epidemic
half nelson
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
pall
prison
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
scrape
strait
the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom

Examples of sticky wicket


sticky wicket
He has nobly realised that his party is on a stickywicket.
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He seems to be on a stickywicket today and is stonewalling against everything.
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They are batting on a very stickywicket.
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However, the fact of the matter is that they are on a very stickywicket indeed.
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I do not blame him, because he was on a somewhat stickywicket at the time.
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He was on a stickywicket, because the question of compensation in all its aspects is a very complicated and confusing subject.
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She played a sturdy innings but it remained a very, very stickywicket on which she was playing, although that was not her personal responsibility.
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I do not think this is a stickywicket.
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Batsmen on a stickywicket usually get run out.
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He has stolen such few runs as the rather stickywicket on which he is batting has permitted him.
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It struck me that he was batting on a very stickywicket and was slithering all over the place.
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He was certainly batting on a very stickywicket.
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On the whole, on agricultural things generally and on agricultural marketing in particular, he has rather a stickywicket on which to bat.
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He never bats on a stickywicket, if he can help it.
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For if ever a man was batting on a stickywicket, he was.
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