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in the soup

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


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“It felt like what the moment called for. I was definitely in the soup already,” she says, writing songs for “Virgin” — “dropping all guard and being radically transparent,” as she puts it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

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

From Reuters ● May 3, 2023

“We have two different places where we get it. We definitely know one place is better than the other, and the rice cakes hold in the soup better and become softer faster,” Kim said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023

"The flavors in the soup are also really different from 'Thanksgiving flavors,' so it's a welcome change of pace," u/petitbleu wrote.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022

"Once it's in the soup, I'll call it beef," Greasy Sae says with a wink.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

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