come to a pretty pass

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Fig. to encounter a difficult situation. (This pretty expresses irony.) This project has come to a pretty pass. I don't know how we can possibly finish on time. Mary had come to a pretty pass. She quit her job to be with her husband, and then he left her.

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Things, it seems, have come to a pretty pass if a man can be accused of anti-Semitism merely for suggesting that the U. Jews on the brain by National Review Things have come to a pretty pass when singing our national anthem and saluting our flag is inconvenient and outdated. PUBLIC FORUM : JACKSON'S ATTACK ON HOLLYWOOD MISDIRECTED by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Luekily, all spoke English, or things might have come to a pretty pass. Queen Victoria: A Portrait by Crocker, H.W. / National Review More results

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Things, it seems, have come to a pretty pass if a man can be accused of anti-Semitism merely for suggesting that the U.

Jews on the brain by National Review

Things have come to a pretty pass when singing our national anthem and saluting our flag is inconvenient and outdated.

PUBLIC FORUM : JACKSON'S ATTACK ON HOLLYWOOD MISDIRECTED by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Luekily, all spoke English, or things might have come to a pretty pass.

Queen Victoria: A Portrait by Crocker, H.W. / National Review

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