a pretty pass
old-fashionedDefinition
› a bad situation: Things have come to a pretty pass when a referee can no longer be trusted.Difficult situations and unpleasant experiencesAccidents and disasters
(Definition of a pretty pass from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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