card one sleeve (noun) ace in the hole: hidden advantage
Sinonime: big trouble,
catastrophe,
change, climacteric,
climax,
confrontation,
contingency,
corner, crossroad, crunch,
crux,
culmination, deadlock,
dilemma, dire straits,
disaster,
embarrassment,
emergency, entanglement,
exigency, extremity,
height, hot potato, hour of decision, imbroglio,
impasse,
juncture,
mess, moment of truth,
necessity, pass, perplexity, pickle,
pinch*,
plight, point of no return,
predicament,
pressure,
puzzle,
quandary,
situation, stew, strait,
trauma,
trial,
trouble, turning point,
urgencyAntonime: calm,
peace