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“Up the creek without a paddle”in other languages

In serious trouble, with no easy way out.

  • English
  • Czech
  • French
  • Portuguese
English
in hot water up the creek without a paddle
Czech
Být v rejži literally To be in the rice
French
Être dans de beaux draps literally To be in fine sheets Être dans la mouise literally To be in the gruel
Portuguese
estar com a corda no pescoço literally To be with the rope around the neck
Behind the words

Same idea, different pictures

English has several. Up the creek without a paddle is stuck, with no way back, and the polite version of a ruder one. In hot water is in trouble.

French is in fine sheets, être dans de beaux draps, said with irony, or in the gruel, dans la mouise, which also means broke. Portuguese has the rope around its neck, estar com a corda no pescoço, and Czech is in the rice, být v rejži.

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