up the creek

1. Also, up shit creek. See up a creek.

Example Sentences

"Now we've got a little pen torch, just in case, whereas the old pitmen's lamps used to have a little bulb, but if your battery fused you were up the creek really."

From BBC

The dog team was barreling up the creek and was drawn in by his commotion, and I barely got the sled stopped and tied off to a tree before they got to him.

From Literature

I gathered gear, left the trap triggered and hanging from a branch, and made my way back up the creek.

From Literature

“We economists are up the creek without a paddle in determining whether dog food prices will rise more or less quickly than cat food and/or thousands of other items such as prices of rubber bands, peanut butter, shoes, cars, turnips, etc.,” said Walter Block, an economist who teaches at Loyola University New Orleans.

From Washington Times

“It leaves them up the creek.”

From Washington Post

Related Words

• desperate 
• forlorn 
• helpless 
• impossible 
• pointless 
• sad 
• tragic 
• useless