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Daily English Pod
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During the week, you’ll learn practical vocabulary, expressions, idioms, and real-life English, the language people actually use in everyday conversations, emotions, and work.
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Sticky situation
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Sticky situation
It’s an expression we use to describe a difficult, tricky, or embarrassing problem — something messy that’s not easy to get out of.
Examples:
1- If you forget your friend’s birthday and they find out, you might be in a sticky situation.
2- I once borrowed my brother’s shirt and spilled coffee on it before he even noticed — talk about a sticky situation!
Intro
Hi everyone, and welcome back to Daily English Pod! Today, as it’s the weekend, we learn English through real stories
The Story In 1919, in Boston, USA, a huge storage tank filled with molasses — you know, the thick, sweet syrup — suddenly burst. Imagine it: 2 million gallons of sticky, brown molasses rushing through the streets like a wave. Buildings were destroyed, horses and people were swept away, and the entire neighborhood was covered in sugar. What was supposed to be harmless turned into chaos. The city took weeks to clean up, and even years later, people said that on hot summer days, the smell of molasses still filled the air. Boston had truly found itself in… a sticky situation.
The Idiom So, what does a sticky situation mean? It’s an expression we use to describe a difficult, tricky, or embarrassing problem — something messy that’s not easy to get out of.
Examples
- If you forget your friend’s birthday and they find out, you might be in a sticky situation.
- A politician caught lying is definitely in a sticky situation.
- I once borrowed my brother’s shirt and spilled coffee on it before he even noticed — talk about a sticky situation!
Here’s the fun part: locals still call it “The Great Molasses Flood,” and it has become a legendary example of how even something as sweet as sugar can create disaster. In fact, engineers now study it when learning about structural safety.
Final Question So let me ask you: Have you ever been in a sticky situation — maybe not with molasses, but in life? What happened, and how did you get out of it?