释义 |
up a/the creek without a paddle idiom informal(also offensiveup shit creek without a paddle) in a difficult situation, with no way of getting out of it: Customers feel they have been left up the creek without a paddle by the bank. If we don't address this problem now, we will be up a creek without a paddle in the very near future. If this had happened earlier we would have been up shit creek without a paddle. 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 |