in the soup en · ADP
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, slang) In trouble.
[U]nless the murderer came back, I had till about six o'clock in the morning for my cogitations. I was in the soup — that was pretty clear.
1915, John Buchan, chapter 2, in The Thirty-Nine Steps:[T]he poor old lad is absolutely dependent on that remittance of yours, and when you cut it off, don't you know, he was pretty solidly in the soup.
1919, P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg”, in My Man Jeeves:"If they don't hit it off, we're all in the soup," warned Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japan's former Prime Minister, as his successor prepared to meet President Bush last week.
1989 February 13, John Greenwald, “Tiptoe Through the Tensions”, in Time:
Translations (17)
fr dans la merde (in trouble) · tr başı dertte (in trouble) · eo en kaĉo (in trouble) · ru в беде́ (in trouble) · ru в затрудне́нии (in trouble) · fr dans le pétrin (in trouble) · de in der Klemme stecken (in trouble) · eo en granda embaraso (in trouble) · pt em maus lençóis (in trouble) · de in der Patsche / Tinte (sitzen) (in trouble) · ru в тру́дном положе́нии (in trouble) · fr dans la panade (in trouble) · pt em sarilhos (in trouble) · yue 雞毛鴨血 /鸡毛鸭血 (in trouble) · ru в переплёте (in trouble) · ru в за́днице (in trouble) · is í súpunni (in trouble)