dropping someone in it

Verb

drop someone in it (third-person singular simple present drops someone in it, present participle dropping someone in it, simple past and past participle dropped someone in it)

1. To put someone in a difficult situation.
   • The poor bastard's in the shit with the syndicate in London. They want thirty grand from him. He's right on the floor at the moment. Seeing that we dropped him in it, yeah and don't forget he doesn't know it was us who had him over.2001, William F. Gray, The Villain, →ISBN, page 256
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, in.