› in very bad trouble or difficulty:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
- be
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- creek
- embattled
- fall into sth
- flounder
- frying pan
- fumble
- out of the frying pan into the fire idiom
- patch
- pickle
- pressed
- pushed
- rain
- ride
- rocky road idiom
- thin
