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Question
Here are some more idioms taken from the lesson. Find out their meaning and use them in sentence of your own.
in a nice pickle
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Solution
in a nice pickle- in a mess
Boney Kapoor is in a nice pickle unable to explain Sridevi’s sudden death to media personalities and to film Industry friends.
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