The word "pickle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word in a sentence to describe a pickled vegetable, or to refer to a situation that someone is in that is difficult to get out of. For example, "I'm in a real pickle trying to find a solution to this problem."
The company, having grown too quickly for its own good, is currently in a fine pickle, obliged to implement money-laundering checks on customers in a hurry under the orders of regulators.
Mr Pinochet is in his present pickle not because Chile has broken its promise to him but because the general made the mistake of swanning around the world on what turns out to have been the false assumption that the decision of Chile's polity binds the rest of the world's courts.
IT TURNS out that the cure for a Politico-party-induced hangover is not pickle brine or Irn-Bru or any of the things you may have heard of.
The bill leaves Labour in a pickle.
In an unprecedented judgment, the Federal Electoral Tribunal had annulled the controversial election of a Madrazo ally as the state's new governor.See article: A Tabasco pickle for Mexico's PRIThe second-biggest of Colombia's guerrilla groups, the ELN, released 42 soldiers and police it had held hostage for up to two years.
It is thus no use relying on what a programmer has told you about how his code works.Penetrating insightsIn this section The buzz of something new Out of a pickle Not weeds Hacking the hackers Under the influence The chickens are restless ReprintsCryptosense's penetrator, therefore, starts from scratch.
I still dream about the sultry duck liver mousse with almond biscuits; the 'State Bird' – a quail – grilled into smokiness on its bed of gently pickled, sautéed onions and crowned with Parmesan; the smoked duck ham with umeboshi.
In the meantime, here's Pickles' press release promising "a new era of people power", the written ministerial statement on the localism bill (via LGIU blog), CLG's"essential guide" to the bill, and its "six steps to return power to the people" list.
She's also a part of the online "snackwave" phenomenon, which features young women and teenage girls sharing their obsession with snack foods, with Clapp regularly singing her praises of pies and her grandmother's dill pickles.
Today Cameron adopted a much less hysterical approach and this, plus the dreary predictability of Cameron's Unite jibes, was enough to give Miliband the edge, although it was not very clear cut and Miliband's Pickles quote and Cameron's Reynolds/Benn/Betts quote more or less cancelled each other out.
Harun Khan, deputy secretary general of the council, said: "Is Mr Pickles seriously suggesting, as do members of the far right, that Muslims and Islam are inherently apart from British society?" He said he was writing back to Pickles to demand an explanation for the assumptions that appeared to be in the letter.
