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Meaning of up the creek | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

In trouble; in a difficult situation.

idiomatic

Examples

“We'll be up the creek if we lose those files, so we should back them up regularly.”

““Then we would be up the creek. You can be extradited for grand larceny. Jez you wouldnt^([sic]) have me goin^([sic]) round with dark glasses and false whiskers all my life.””

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

up the creek without a paddle up the duff up the flume up the Oxo Tower up the pole up the proverbial