come to a pretty pass

"Things have come to a pretty pass if you're being the voice of reason to my hothead."

Things had come to a pretty pass when you automatically assumed paint was blood.

Things had surely come to a pretty pass when he was reduced to talking about peanuts.

Things have come to a pretty pass if you start flinging water at people, Joan.

"Things have come to a pretty pass, if you're lecturing me on tolerance."

"It has come to a pretty pass, if a green boy with no previous experience is to defeat us.

'Things have come to a pretty pass when a thing like this can go on.

Things had come to a pretty pass indeed.

I think, Mr President, that things have come to a pretty pass.

Really, things are coming to a pretty pass when that girl Lily throws milk all over me."

Marion thought the world had come to a pretty pass when employers referred their employees to consulting psychologists in the course of a business day.

Things really have come to a pretty pass, all as the result of indifference or negligence or fanaticism.

In the name of Allah, things have come to a pretty pass if the tabloids are influencing England's selection policy.

Things have come to a pretty pass if this sort of monkey business has the right of way over official business."

Things obviously have come to a pretty pass, especially when one takes into account other Italian polls showing that about 30 percent believe the devil exists.

Matters have come to a pretty pass if decent boys and girls can't escape freezing to death without being slandered for it.

Things have come to a pretty pass if a minister can't find enough in Holy Writ to preach about, that's what.

I need be departing, with all speed, for another country; for I have come to a pretty pass in this!'

Truly the country is coming to a pretty pass when such trash as that is allowed to take the place of the King's coinage.'

'Things will have come to a pretty pass when I can't put my own tights on, dear, thank you.'

"Ah, yes," said old Jacques d'Arc, "things are come to a pretty pass, indeed!

'Things have come to a pretty pass...' There was a damp, oblong stain on the floor where he had been lying.

Things had come to a pretty pass, hadn'tthey, when even the shoemaker knew she was failing and pitiedher?

"Things have come to a pretty pass, when Scotland Yard comes down and doesn't have the courtesy to talk to the head of the family first!