(n.) Plural of Strait.

arm armlet bay bayou belt bight bind boca broken fortune clutch complication cove creek crunch difficulties distress embarrassing position embarrassment estuary euripus fine how-do-you-do fjord frith genteel poverty gulf gut harbor hard pinch hardship hell to pay hobble hot water how-do-you-do imbroglio impecuniosity impecuniousness inlet insolvency jam kyle light purse loch mess mix morass mouth narrow narrow means narrow seas narrows natural harbor parlous straits pass pickle pinch plight poorness poverty predicament pretty pass pretty pickle pretty predicament quagmire quicksand reach road roads roadstead scrape slender means slough sound spot squeeze stew sticky wicket strait straitened circumstances swamp tight spot tight squeeze tightrope tricky spot unholy mess unprosperousness voluntary poverty vows of poverty