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- phrase idiomatic In
trouble .
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yarb commented on the word in the soup
Old-fashioned idiom meaning roughly up shit creek, jiggered, in a fix. Used hilariously by a character in Waugh's Decline and Fall.
July 1, 2008
yarb commented on the word in the soup
She sprints up to bed.
Something has gone wrong.
He is in the soup.
'Whashummatter, love?
Shummthin darrersed?'
- Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983
July 1, 2008
madmouth commented on the word in the soup
notable spin, from "Jeeves in the Offing":
The prospect of being immured with her in the same house, with all the facilities a country house affords an enterprising girl for landing her nearest and dearest in the mulligatawny, made me singularly dubious about the shape of things to come
April 13, 2009