up the creek

[up the creek] or [up the creek without a paddle] {adj. phr.}, {informal} In trouble or difficulty and unable to do anything about it; stuck.

* /Father said that if the car ran out of gas in the middle of the desert, we would be up the creek without a paddle./

* /I'll be up the creek if I don't pass this history test./

Compare: DEEP WATER, IN THE SOUP, UP A TREE, OUT OF LUCK.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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