in trouble with

1. In difficulties with someone, especially an authority. For example, If they don't shovel their walk, they'll be in trouble with their neighbors. This idiom is also put as, as in Watch what you say or you'll get into trouble with the teacher. [Mid-1500s] Also see hot water; in a fix.

Example Sentences

“Is our young playwright in trouble with the law? I am disappointed to hear it. He hardly seemed the type.”

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He started at the SEC in 2002 to help with compliance at a time when several schools were in trouble with the NCAA, and became commissioner in 2015.

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This, she said, can include mental health problems, substance misuse, unemployment and getting in trouble with the criminal justice system.

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He was in trouble with the administration for a website he’d developed ranking the looks of his female classmates.

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"I found that I get the same adrenaline boost from being in trouble with the police and being missing and stuff."

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