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A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition:

box¹, corner, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight¹, predicament, quagmire, scrape, soup, trouble. (Informal) bind, pickle, spot. See easy

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