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I heard that it means something like "to get stuck with something."

Can you explain what this means and give some examples?
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Explain what はめになる is and give some examples
Looks like it means to wind up in an undesirable situation. Some of the
definitions for the kanji 羽目{はめ} are difficult/awkward situation; bind; mess.
The になる is the common suffix
[になる](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/739/54).

In all of the examples I've seen it attaches to the plain form of verbs (not
necessarily the dictionary form, but a form of the verb that ends in an u).

Here's a couple from Ejiro:

> 結局何もかもやるはめになる  
>  end up doing everything

(as opposed to one's coworkers, teammates, etc.)

> If those roads had been finished then, Pakistan would have been a little
> more developed by now, but Bhutto, the Prime Minister who took up office
> after that, cancelled the construction because if the roads had been
> completed, the credit would only have gone to
> Sharif.（それかできていれは、今頃パキスタンはもう少し発展していたと思うのですか、次に首相に就任したフットさんか、道路が完成したらシャリフ氏の手柄になってしまうということで、建設を中止してしまったのです。）  
>  Owing to Bhutto, not only were the roads not finished, but the people were
> put in the nasty situation of having to shoulder an enormous
> debt.（おかけで、道路が完成しなかったどころか、莫大な借金を抱える **はめになった** のです。）
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