Thesaurus:in trouble

Thesaurus

in trouble

English

Adjective

Sense: in a difficult situation

Synonyms

• buggered (vulgar, slang)
• cactused (Australian, slang)
• dicked (vulgar, slang)
• fucked (vulgar, slang)
• hooped (Canada, slang)
• in a bind
• in a fix
• in a mess
• in a pickle
• in a pinch
• in a world of pain
• in a world of trouble
• in deep shit (vulgar)
• in Dickie's meadow
• in for it
• in the lurch
• in the shit
• in the soup
• in trouble
• knee-deep in the Big Muddy (US)
• rooted (vulgar, slang)
• screwed (vulgar, slang)
• shagged (vulgar, slang)
• souped
• stuffed (slang)
• up a gum tree
• up against it
• up shit creek (vulgar)
• up the creek
• up the creek without a paddle
• up the proverbial (euphemistic)
• waist deep in the Big Muddy (US)

Hyponyms

• justice-involved (US, euphemistic)

Various

• screwed, blued and tattooed
• on the skids
• in a cleft stick
• between a rock and a hard place
• between Scylla and Charybdis
• between the devil and the deep blue sea
• on the horns of a dilemma
• behind the eight-ball
• doomed    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cursed
• stranded

See also

• Thesaurus:difficult situation
• Thesaurus:doomed

Further reading

• “665. danger” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “704. difficulty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “in trouble” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.