KETTLE OF FISH meaning: Situation, often difficult or messy

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Kettle of Fish: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
Kettle of Fish: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (kettle of fish)

▸ noun: (idiomatic) An awkward situation.
▸ noun: (idiomatic) A situation recognized as different from or as an alternative to some other situation.

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mess, disaster, predicament, quandary, muddle, tangle, fix, hole, more...

Phrases:

a fine kettle of fish, a different kettle of fish, a pretty kettle of fish, fine kettle of fish, more...

Adjectives:

bait, squidgy, bone, kipper, stale, gorge, gone fishing, fished out, killer, spear, overfished

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