Examples of use of up the creek
1. "They‘re up the creek without a paddle." "And the second one would be because of Roe v.
2. Without hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from the U.S. and the Quartet, the Palestinian leadership is basically up the creek.
3. The person "emphasized that we should not call ahead of time to seek pre–approval, because then we would be ‘up the creek,‘" Kutz said.
4. Up the creek the Cameroons will go (just as Iain Duncan Smith did over Iraq) until to criticise the deployment in principle will look like a late and hypocritical U–turn.
5. They‘re really up the creek." "This is the time of year when you start coming out to make some money," agreed Pete Schimmel, 45, who has dug clams on Cape Cod for 15 years.