Things have come to a pretty pass when a thing like this can go on.

Things have come to a pretty pass if you're being the voice of reason to my hothead.

Things had come to a pretty pass when you automatically assumed paint was blood.

Things have come to a pretty pass if you start flinging water at people, Joan.

Things have come to a pretty pass, if you're lecturing me on tolerance.

Things have come to a pretty pass when you find yourself rooting for the United States.

Things had come to a pretty pass indeed.

I think, Mr President, that things have come to a pretty pass.

When a father signs off a letter to his daughter, “Yours Sincerely,” things have come to a pretty pass.

Things have come to a pretty pass when shopkeepers won't sell their goods to you because they're upset by your manner.

Things have come to a pretty pass if this sort of monkey business has the right of way over official business.

Things have come to a pretty pass, you might say, when it takes an Italian to lecture the English on sexual mores.

Things have come to a pretty pass if a minister can't find enough in Holy Writ to preach about, that's what.

Things had come to a pretty pass, hadn'tthey, when even the shoemaker knew she was failing and pitiedher?

You know things have come to a pretty pass when US politicians throw their weight behind a French company because the alternative is worse.

In the name of Allah, things have come to a pretty pass if the tabloids are influencing England's selection policy.

Things have come to a pretty pass, when Scotland Yard comes down and doesn't have the courtesy to talk to the head of the family first!

Things have come to a pretty pass...' There was a damp, oblong stain on the floor where he had been lying. '

Things have come to a pretty pass when you let that fat-necked, grunting oaf present himself as a beacon of feminism.”

Things have come to a pretty pass when Sweden and a former Soviet republic such as Estonia are giving Britain lessons in supply-side economics.

Things have come to a pretty pass when we MEPs pass on the cries for help and none of those in positions of responsibility hear them.

When the self-proclaimed "conscience of liberal America" and a one-time free trader to boot starts arguing for protectionism, you know that things have come to a pretty pass.

If you must have somebody throwin' a bottle at your head or dumpin' ministers into the river or diggin' treasure, things have come to a pretty pass.