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up a/the creek
idiom informal(also offensiveup shit creek)
in a difficult situation: 陷入困境；处于困境
If any more people resign, we'll be really up the creek.如果再有更多的人辞职，我们真的就麻烦了。
He doesn't have a computer and without the library he would be up a creek.
I had absolutely no money and I was up shit creek.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Experiencing difficulties
be
be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom
be climbing the wallsidiom
be for the high jumpidiom
be/come up against a brick wallidiom
fall into something
flounder
frying pan
fumble
fun
jungle
leg
not have a leg to stand onidiom
on a razor edgeidiom
out of the frying pan into the fireidiom
pickle
pressed
rocky
sticky
strand
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