in the soup

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Prepositional phrase

in the soup

1. (slang) In trouble.
   • 1915, John Buchan, chapter 2, in The Thirty-Nine Steps:

     [U]nless the murderer came back, I had till about six o'clock in the morning for my cogitations. I was in the soup — that was pretty clear.

   • 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg”, in My Man Jeeves:

     [T]he poor old lad is absolutely dependent on that remittance of yours, and when you cut it off, don't you know, he was pretty solidly in the soup.

   • 1989 February 13, John Greenwald, “Tiptoe Through the Tensions”, in Time:

     "If they don't hit it off, we're all in the soup," warned Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japan's former Prime Minister, as his successor prepared to meet President Bush last week.

Translations

in trouble

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雞毛鴨血／鸡毛鸭血 (gai¹ mou⁴ aap³ hyut³)

• French: (colloquial) dans le pétrin (fr), (vulgar) dans la merde (fr), dans la panade (fr)
• German: in der Patsche / Tinte (sitzen), in der Klemme stecken (de)
• Russian: в беде́ (ru) (v bedé), в переплёте (ru) (v perepljóte), в затрудне́нии (ru) (v zatrudnénii), в тру́дном положе́нии (v trúdnom položénii), в за́днице (ru) (v zádnice) (rude)