dire straits
strait
tight spot
squeeze
up against it
between a rock and a hard place
struggle bus
knot
jam
jackpot
spot
nodus
clutch
hot potato
difficult situation
how do you do
tough going
pig
hard
uphill
mispositioning
unwind
slew
in the lurch
wrestle
bunker
praemunire
malposition
misplacement
run for one's money
gapped
positionlessness
opposition
malpositioned
strugglingly
superchallenge
toughish
diff
semitough
opposite
stumbling stone
in a corner
ectopic
stumblingblock
rough sledding
against the collar
reposition
dilemmaticity
doo-doo
at loose ends