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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
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