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come to a pretty pass

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come to a pretty pass

Fig. to encounter a difficult situation. (This pretty expresses irony.) This project has come to a pretty pass. I don't know how we can possibly finish on time. Mary had come to a pretty pass. She quit her job to be with her husband, and then he left her.

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