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a pretty pass

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[a pretty pass] {n. phr.}

An unfortunate condition; a critical state.

* /While the boss was away, things at the company had come to a pretty pass./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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