sticky wicket 的定义
- Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
- Chiefly British. a situation requiring delicate treatment; an awkward situation: In telling his wife that he has to be away for a month in Cannes, he'll be batting on a sticky wicket.
sticky wicket 近义词
difficult situation
更多sticky wicket例句
- Paddle8 already has a “sticky collector base who are addicted to the site,” he says.
- Empty cigarette packs, liquor bottles, containers sticky with food residue covered the floor.
- She is equally desirous of Levine, as animalistic and eager to consume him while sticky with sanguine fluid.
- That was cold, and I was covered in sticky blood in winter in England, on a castle wall.
- Each of them was coated in something resembling a gray, sticky batter.
- It looked into a garden, whence a wicket-gate opened into a small paddock; all beyond was fine meadow-land and wood.
- How could this be done so that our clothing would be made water-tight and yet not be sticky in summer or stiff in winter?
- The sheets of rubber from which the uppers and soles are cut are at this stage of the work plastic and very sticky.
- Those whose hoops had been knocked down assembled on one side, close to the side wicket.
- Nothing more innocent-appearing yet more villainously sticky have I ever before encountered.