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in the soup

in the soup prepositional phrase: in trouble.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic, slang) In trouble.
    • [U]nless the murderer came back, I had till about six o'clock in the morning for my cogitations. I was in the soup — that was pretty clear.1915, John Buchan, chapter 2, in The Thirty-Nine Steps
    • [T]he poor old lad is absolutely dependent on that remittance of yours, and when you cut it off, don't you know, he was pretty solidly in the soup.1919, P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg”, in My Man Jeeves

Questions about in the soup

What does in the soup mean?
In the soup means in trouble.
What part of speech is in the soup?
In the soup is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the soup in the dictionary

  1. in the shitter
  2. in the shoes of
  3. in the short run
  4. in the short term
  5. in the snap of one's fingers
  6. in the soup
  7. in the space of
  8. in the spotlight
  9. in the stars
  10. in the stead of
  11. in the stratosphere

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