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up the proverbial

up the proverbial is the euphemistic form of up shit creek.

Meaning of up shit creek

Prepositional phrase

  1. (vulgar) In trouble; in a difficult situation.

Questions about up the proverbial

What is up the proverbial the euphemistic form of?
Up the proverbial is the euphemistic form of up shit creek.

Words near up the proverbial in the dictionary

  1. up the game
  2. up the gut
  3. up the kyte
  4. up the Oxo Tower
  5. up the pole
  6. up the proverbial
  7. up the river
  8. up the spout
  9. up the stick
  10. up the stump
  11. up the wall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up the proverbial (page history and authors); up shit creek (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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