vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
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informal terms for a difficult situation
<noun.state> he got into a terrible fix he made a muddle of his marriage [ verb ]
preserve in a pickling liquid
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Pickle \Pic"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pickled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pickling}.] 1. To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
2. To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
Pickle \Pic"kle\, n. [Obs.] See {Picle}.
Pickle \Pic"kle\, n. [Cf. D. pekel. Probably a dim. fr. {Pick}, v. t., alluding to the cleaning of the fish.] 1. (a) A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine. (b) Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.
2. Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
3. (Founding) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.
4. A troublesome child; as, a little pickle. [Colloq.]
{To be in a pickle}, to be in disagreeable position; to be in a condition of embarrassment, difficulty, or disorder. ``How cam'st thou in this pickle?'' --Shak.
{To put a rod in pickle}, to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.
Picle \Pi"cle\ ((p[i^]k"'l), n. [Prob. fr. pightel or pingle.] A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Obs.] [Written also {pickle}.]
But things turned very sour when federal regulators gave preliminary approval to the pickle packers' plan to dilute vinegar's role by also using food-grade acids in the pickling process.
The pickle packers wanted to bring the fruit (yes, it's a fruit) into the 1990s.
Urban affairs, Koch said, "is an area I am familiar with." Computers tell a fighter pilot when and where to drop his bombs, but the man at the controls still pushes the "pickle button" that releases the explosives.
Not content with digging himself into a hole on coal, it now appears that he is jumping headlong into a pickle on the Post Office'.
The oil got into a mud flat and pickle weed that is habitat for federally listed endangered birds.
The oil flowed Sunday into an area of mud flats and pickle weed that is habitat for federally listed endangered birds.
Others are in a similar pickle.
If they had privatised the Conservative party its board would be in a right old pickle.
A clever application and pickle industry connections led to Timothy G. Gautier, 23, and Amy R. Smith, 19, said wedding committee Chairwoman Lillian B. Langley.
Yoshitomi told us to save the last yellow pickle, which we used with tea to wash out the bowls.