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pretty pass

noun

Definitions

  1. An unsatisfactory situation.

    • "Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a warm supper and a bed to poor, starving creatures, just because they are slaves, and have been abused and oppressed all their lives, poor things!"
    • The prisoner of unknown bandits, hurried he knew not whence, a pretty pass for an adventurer.

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