straits
strayts
- n a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- n a difficult juncture
- n a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
- n a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- Considering his present straits, the move may make sense.
- No one should begrudge respect for Cubans on either side of the straits not those who died in prisons fighting Fulgencio Batista nor those who died on rafts escaping Fidel .
- A cross-straits war, however, is hardly imminent.