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Derbyshire county council is placed in something of a cleft stick in relation to applications that it receives.
They calculated very shrewdly—we had better face this—that they had got both political parties in a cleft stick.
My constituents and the young man found themselves in a cleft stick.
He said he was in a cleft stick.
It seems to me that he may find himself in a cleft stick.
This means that they are completely tied to the one merchant, absolutely in a cleft stick.
However, in those days communications were by means of a message carried in a cleft stick and the carriers ran along the roads.
On that matter we have been in something of a cleft stick.
If events make it, as they may, impossible for you to implement that undertaking, then you are in a cleft stick.
The authority is in a cleft stick, because it can only improve one area to the detriment of another.
The trouble is that in this matter we are in a cleft stick.
But here we are in a cleft stick.
The family is caught in a cleft stick.
He called it a cleft stick but it is the thin end of the wedge.
While the hop growers and the brewers have reached absolute unanimity with regard to the scheme, the brewers found themselves in a cleft stick.
