in a cleft stick

(British & Australian old-fashioned)

if someone is in a cleft stick, they have a problem which is very difficult to solve I'm in a real cleft stick because I can't sell my house. Because of new employment laws, these companies are caught in a cleft stick.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bernard	bər-NAHRD (English), BUR-nərd (English), ber-NAHR (French), BER-nahrt (Polish, Croatian)	English, French, Dutch, Polish, Croatian, Slovene, Czech, Ancient Germanic
Quintilian	-	History
Govinda	-	Hinduism, Indian, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada
Orli	-	Hebrew
Colombina	-	Italian
KİRaz	-	Turkish