sticky wicket
粘土,粘土墙,粘滞性,粘滞性的门槛
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- : 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.
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Examples
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.