sticky wicket
noun
A difficult or embarrassing problem or situation. A pitch that has become wet because of rain and therefore on which the ball bounces unpredictably. A difficult or unpredictable situation.
Well, there are people outside of the US, some of whom don’t even have English as their first language. A quick investigation into this leads me.to believe that there might even be more people outside the US than inside. Most of those people have never heard of a sticky wicket.
Is this a US expression? I never heard it growing up so I just assumed it was from the UK or something
A “sticky wicket”.
Thank you, I honestly wouldn’t have figured it out…Sometimes The Far Side is completely obvious, sometimes it’s completely obtuse.
I gotta say, this is one of the few comics I’ve seen where I didn’t get the joke at all until it was explained
Those aren’t wickets, at least not cricket wickets. Unless the hoops used in croquet are also called wickets.
Though depicting a factory that produces an otherwise ordinary wooden pole would be a little more challenging to be unambiguous.
