Thesaurus:difficult situation
English
Noun
Sense: a difficult situation
Synonyms
- ass in a sling (vulgar)
- bind
- bucket of syrup (idiomatic)
- calvary
- cross (figurative)
- cross to bear (idiomatic)
- difficulty
- dilemma [⇒ thesaurus]
- dire straits
- doghouse
- fix
- hole [⇒ thesaurus]
- jam
- kettle of fish (idiomatic)
- ordeal
- pickle
- pinch
- plight
- predicament
- quandary
- quagmire
- situation
- spot [⇒ thesaurus]
- spot of bother
- sticky situation
- sticky wicket
- tight spot
- trouble
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See also
Further reading
- “665. danger” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “735. adversity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “predicament” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.