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- adjective idiomatic
Stuck in apredicament ;mired in a difficult situation, especially one resulting from poorjudgment or badleadership .
Etymologies
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From Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, a 1967 folk song by Pete Seeger, protesting the war in Vietnam.
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