soup
- noun
- /suːp/
- Archaic
- When the project deadline was moved up, we knew we were in big soup trying to finish everything on time.
They think it's a simple, quick fix and they just don't get that you are stuck in a deep brown soup and cannot.
- They think it's a simple, quick fix and they just don't get that you are stuck in a deep brown soup and cannot.
- But when I say that, it's like when we all in the soup and just we ain't got no money and it ain't we ain't got the CD opportunities over here.
Examples
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I sure am glad we're coming out of the soup.
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I'm in this horrendous cultural soup that I'm in right now.
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He'll never make it in this soup, not one chance.
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"Sure you want to walk in this soup?" Smith asked.
Fiction book (1990) -
Now the Yankees are back in the soup with only huge profits to console them.
Blog text (23) -
We're in the soup.
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And so you're kind of in this soup of knowing that this is the area where you want to focus the impact, but you're not being a very, very, very good friend of yours.
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He doesn't realize, you know, he, he doesn't realize how much we have and how deep we're in, how deep in the soup we're in and how late we're, we are in the cycle.
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After missing the last train, I found myself in a terrible soup with no way to get home.
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After losing his job, he realized he was really in the soup and needed to find work quickly.
Synonyms
In trouble because of a problem
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To try something very difficult that goes wrong and becomes messy
Compounds
A hot soup made with chicken and vegetables that people eat for comfort when sick
A soup with pieces of chicken, noodles, and vegetables in hot chicken broth
A thick smooth soup that people make from mushrooms and milk or cream and use in casseroles
- Specialized
A mix of simple chemicals in early oceans that may have formed life
- Archaic
A soup made from the meat of green turtles, often served as a special food
- Specialized
A Pacific shark with fins used for Chinese soup and liver rich in vitamin A
Surface Forms
Etymology
Soup in the phrase in the soup gives the picture of being stuck in a hot, messy bowl. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine being 'in trouble' as if you were stuck in hot soup.