in+an+embarrassing+position

  • 91tight spot — Synonyms and related words: bind, clutch, complication, crunch, cubby, cubbyhole, doghouse, embarrassing position, embarrassment, fine how do you do, hell to pay, hobble, hole, hot water, how do you do, imbroglio, jam, mess, mix, morass, parlous… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 92tight squeeze — Synonyms and related words: bind, broken fortune, close call, close shave, close squeak, closeness, clutch, complication, confinement, crowdedness, crunch, cubby, cubbyhole, difficulties, distress, doghouse, embarrassing position, embarrassment,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 93unholy mess — Synonyms and related words: arsy varsiness, bind, clutch, clutter, complication, crunch, embarrassing position, embarrassment, farrago, fine how do you do, hash, hell to pay, helter skelter, higgledy piggledy, hobble, hodgepodge, hot water, how… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 94Hole — 1. embarrassing position or predicament: to find oneself in a hole ; 2. filthy, disgusting, boring, or otherwise objectionable place; 3. any of certain apertures of the body, as the mouth, anus, or female genitals …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 95hole — I Australian Slang 1. embarrassing position or predicament: to find oneself in a hole ; 2. filthy, disgusting, boring, or otherwise objectionable place; 3. any of certain apertures of the body, as the mouth, anus, or female genitals II Everyday… …

    English dialects glossary

  • 96catch\ with\ one's\ pants\ down — v. phr. slang (smb) To surprise someone in an embarrassing position or guilty act. They thought they could succeed in the robbery, but they got caught with their pants down. When the weather turned hot in May, the drive in restaurant was caught… …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 97in a box — In a perplexity, in a difficulty, in a dilemma, in an embarrassing position, in an awkward predicament, in a bad fix …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 98hole — [[t]hoʊl[/t]] n. v. holed, hol•ing 1) an opening through something; gap: a hole in the roof[/ex] 2) a hollow place in a solid mass; cavity: a hole in the ground[/ex] 3) the excavated habitation of an animal; burrow 4) a cramped or shabby place of …

    From formal English to slang

  • 99chancery — /ˈtʃænsəri / (say chansuhree), /ˈtʃansəri/ (say chahnsuhree) noun (plural chanceries) 1. → chancellery. 2. (upper case) British (formerly) the Lord Chancellor s court, now a division of the High Court of Justice. 3. Also, court of chancery.… …

  • 100hole — /hoʊl / (say hohl) noun 1. an opening through anything; an aperture. 2. a hollow place in a solid body or mass; a cavity: a hole in the ground. 3. a waterhole. 4. Goldmining a shaft sunk into the ground from the surface; a miner s excavation. 5.… …