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up the spoutBritish informal 1No longer working or likely to be useful or successful: his petrol gauge is up the spout...- Now, with the roads clogged, the trains up the spout and hot desking presenting a daily strain of competing for your actual workstation, the thought of staying at home to work has never been more appealing.
- Of course, the alternative is that the authorities turn a blind eye to drug use in brothels, and then your whole criminal justice system goes up the spout.
- By the time you have eventually caught one, appointments in town have been missed and one's careful planning for the day has gone up the spout.
2(Of a woman) pregnant.‘I'm up the spout so you'd better hike child benefit,’ were not the words used, which is a pity as it would have livened things up a little....- I hear Daly is now up the spout through her unholy union with Kaye.
- Turn again to this lot, and their sympathetic reaction to some self-proclaimed religious freak who has been put up the spout out of wedlock.
3(Of a bullet or cartridge) in the barrel of a gun and ready to be fired.Fully loaded with its seven-round magazine, plus one up the spout, the P - 32 weighs a feathery 9.4 ounces, yet packs respectable firepower that can be unleashed with a pull of its DAO trigger....- There's a full mag and empty chamber, and I recommend one up the spout until we cross the river.
- Any time an armed officer perceived sufficient danger to draw the gun, he or she would chamber a round if there wasn't one up the spout already.
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