up the stump
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- (informal) At a loss, puzzled, in a bind.
- 1900, Queensland Agricultural Journal, volume 7, page 216:
- Science is up the stump. She can't find out why green sorghum should be so quickly fatal to cattle, says an exchange.
- 1907, The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, volume 14, page 662:
- He said old Dr. Blank had been attending to him all day, but was “up the stump” and wanted me to help.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:up the stump.
- (Canada, informal) Pregnant.
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Synonyms edit
- (pregnant): see also Thesaurus:pregnant.