Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Kettle of fish   /kˈɛtəl əv fɪʃ/   Listen
Kettle of fish

noun
1.
Informal terms for a difficult situation.  Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle.  "He made a muddle of his marriage"






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Kettle of fish" Quotes from Famous Books



... Captain Horn. "If your schooner should meet with head winds or any other bad luck, and the Finland should leave before I got there, there would be a pretty kettle of fish, and if she touched here and found no one in charge, I don't believe she would take ...
— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton



Words linked to "Kettle of fish" :   difficulty, dog's breakfast, dog's dinner



Copyright © 2024 Diccionario ingles.com