in the soup

Idioms and Phrases

In trouble, as in She mailed all the checks with the wrong postage, and now she's really in the soup . [ Slang ; late 1800s]

Example Sentences

The rice cake soup is made with a base of either beef broth or anchovy broth, seasoned and boiled with flat, oval-shaped rice cakes that become soft and chewy in the soup.

From Salon

The idea is that superconductivity occurs when electrons pair up and form a new state of matter and that this could happen in the soup of electrons that surrounds a metal’s nuclei—particularly when those nuclei belong to ultralight hydrogen atoms.

From Scientific American

Then I took some of the leeks, pulled them out before cooking them in the soup, and then I fried them in ghee, and then put that on top as a topping.

From Salon

He wasn’t in the convenience store where he usually bought vodka or in the soup kitchen where he sometimes ate lunch.

From New York Times

The market may be "back in the soup on the banking crisis," said Chuck Carlson, chief executive officer at Horizon Investment Services.

From Reuters

Related Words

• despondent
• forlorn
• futile
• sad
• vain