fine kettle of fish

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "fine kettle of fish":
      bind, clutch, complication, crunch, embarrassing position,
      embarrassment, fine how-do-you-do, hell to pay, hobble, hot water,
      how-do-you-do, imbroglio, jam, mess, mix, morass, parlous straits,
      pass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pretty pass,
      pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quagmire, quicksand, scrape,
      slough, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, swamp,
      tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, unholy mess