| 释义 |
in the soup informal In trouble: I’ve lost the money—I’m in the soup...- On the pitch, the team may seem to be in the soup, with several bad results in the wake of their record-breaking unbeaten run coming to an end.
- The local DJ landed himself in the soup with a few of his listeners over the weekend when he ran an item on ‘Irishisms’.
- It has now turned into a boomerang which has left the policy makers in the soup with the councillors displaying a deep-seated opposition to the plan for an incinerator.
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