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pretty pickle

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pretty pickle
Fig. a difficult situation. (Pickle = a bad situation.) Well, this is a pretty pickle you've gotten us into.
See also: pickle, pretty
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Tony Blair might reflect on the fact that Cherie would have been in a pretty pickle without it.
JENNI MURRAY: Cherie would have been in a pretty pickle by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Take the former England captain out of the equation and, as goalkeeper Shay Given suggested a fortnight ago, the Geordies would be in a pretty pickle.
Football: Toon manage without Shearer strike - for once by The Mirror (London, England)
25am) A bungled jewel robbery leaves an apprentice locksmith in a pretty pickle.
LAST NIGHT; Train in danger of being left in sidings by Morgan, Kathleen / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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