Term: desperate straits: a state of extreme distress
Broader: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Unrelated: earshot: the range within which a voice can be heard
Broader: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Unrelated: hack: a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
Broader: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Unrelated: food chain: (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member
Broader: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Unrelated: mallotus: capelins
Broader: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Unrelated: pike-perch: any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family
Broader: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Unrelated: zapper: an electrical device that can injure or kill by means of electric currents
Broader: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Unrelated: tachogram: a graphical record of speed and distance produced by a tachograph
Broader: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Unrelated: andropogon: tall annual or perennial grasses with spikelike racemes; warm regions
Broader: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Unrelated: ore: a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
Broader: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Unrelated: lepidocybium: a genus of Gempylidae