#straits__strait__pass__strait  a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
  supertype:  #state_of_affairs__situation  the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt
  subtype:  #desperate_straits__desperatestrait__dire_straits  a state of extreme distress

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