英语词汇“be up the creek”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

be up the creek

informal

1 (also be up the creek without a paddle) Be in severe difficulty or trouble, especially with no means of extricating oneself from it: if the police raided us I’d be up the creek...

The couple and their three children were forced to move to the new house because they had already sold the old one and David said: ‘We're up the creek without a paddle.’
Now, to their utter dismay, that hasn't happened and with IRA decommissioning, about to utterly change the face of Northern politics, political unionism is up the creek without a paddle.
As for labor market ‘fluidity,’ what that really means is your middle-class job is gone and you're up the creek without a paddle - adios chump.

2British Be stupid or misguided: he said my idea of Catholicism was up the creek

See parent entry: creek

单词	be up the creek
释义	be up the creek informal 1 (also be up the creek without a paddle) Be in severe difficulty or trouble, especially with no means of extricating oneself from it: if the police raided us I’d be up the creek... The couple and their three children were forced to move to the new house because they had already sold the old one and David said: ‘We're up the creek without a paddle.’ Now, to their utter dismay, that hasn't happened and with IRA decommissioning, about to utterly change the face of Northern politics, political unionism is up the creek without a paddle. As for labor market ‘fluidity,’ what that really means is your middle-class job is gone and you're up the creek without a paddle - adios chump. 2British Be stupid or misguided: he said my idea of Catholicism was up the creek See parent entry: creek
随便看	about-sledge about time about-turn above above all (else) above and beyond above-average above board above bounden above-cited above-found above-given above ground above-ground pool above-head above-mentioned above-named above-noted above oneself above (or below or under) par above (or below) the fold above (or beyond) reproach above-quoted above-recited abovesaid