Difference between Dire Straits and Desperate Straits

DIRE STRAITS vs DESPERATE STRAITS: NOUN

Desperate, Bleak, Disarray, Foundering, Teetering, Prospering, Bankrupt, Struggling, Shambles, Floundering, Predicament, Precarious, Parlous, Dire, Desperate straits

Rudderless, Penniless, Bankrupt, Helpless, Struggling, Powerless, Indebted, Vulnerable, Destitute, Floundering, Precarious, Hopeless, Dire, Desperate, Dire straits

Desperate, Bleak, Disarray, Foundering, Teetering, Prospering, Bankrupt, Struggling, Shambles, Floundering, Predicament, Precarious, Parlous, Dire, Desperate straits

Rudderless, Penniless, Bankrupt, Helpless, Struggling, Powerless, Indebted, Vulnerable, Destitute, Floundering, Precarious, Hopeless, Dire, Desperate, Dire straits

USPS considers the same to be Dire Straits mail.
Days slipped by with the group in dire straits.
Prospective payday loan borrowers are often in dire straits.
Especially those countries whose economies are in dire straits.
SEVEN of the biggest tracks ever from DIRE STRAITS.
First, our National Fish Hatcheries are in dire straits.
Financial Sustainability: State Electricity Board in Dire Straits.
The public health system is in dire straits.
Dire Straits has been composed in D minor.
Israel is in dire straits and it finds itself in these straits in part because of the immaturity of our political activists.

After saying that Italy deserved to win, he wanted to allay the shock most Italy felt at seeing their Azzurri in such desperate straits.
For those of us who would like to help reclaim a society in desperate straits, maybe we ought to follow his example.
He had got into the habit of seeing himself always in desperate straits.