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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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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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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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Chapter 4.1: Tight Corners - Vocabulary [Page 111]

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Chapter 4.1 Tight Corners
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