in the soup
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Prepositional phrase
edit- (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
editin trouble
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