Sticky Widget

What is Sticky Widget?

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(stik-EE widge-ET, likely American)

Contradiction or intellectual impasse. A corruption of the phrase sticky wicket, describing a tricky situation in the game of cricket. The substitution of widget for wicket suggests a substitution of a more familiar word given most Americans' ignorance of the game.

see also sticking point, widget.

Dick: "I wonder which holds greater cosmic import-- the ontology of giraffes or Polynesian linguistics."

Jane: "What a sticky widget. Let's go get some Burger King."
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