in the soup

Definitions

In trouble.

idiomatic, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“[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.”

“[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.”

“"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.”

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