reach a pretty pass

To encounter or develop into a particularly difficult, troublesome, or bad state or situation. Now don't spread this around, but I hear things have reached a pretty pass between Mark and his wife. Negotiations between management and the striking employees reached a pretty pass when the labor union rejected the company's latest deal.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jabr	-	Arabic
Lejla	-	Bosnian
Laura	['lɔ:rə]
BernÁT	-	Hungarian
Carmella	kahr-MEL-ə	English
Rustam	-	Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tajik