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A situation so awkward even the exits have exits.
means A difficult, often embarrassing position where every available option is a bad one.
from From Latin praedicamentum, a logician's word for a category or class of statement. Medieval scholars asked what category a thing fell into; the public heard a synonym for the fix they were stuck in, and the messier meaning won.
Logic rootsOriginally meant Aristotle's categories of being.
Neutral pastOnce any condition, good or bad, you were in.
Sibling wordShares ancestry with predicate, the sentence backbone.