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up a creekIn trouble; in a difficult situation.Rate it:
up a creek without a paddleIn a difficult situation, without any help. Superlative form of up a creek: most up a creek.Rate it:
Up a Creek without a PaddleIn severe trouble, in awkward position with no easy way out, in serious difficultyRate it:
up a stormIn a remarkable and exciting manner.Rate it:
up a treeIn or into a disadvantaged or difficult situation; at a loss; cornered.Rate it:
up againstFacing; challenging, or opposing.Rate it:
up againstIn contact with, abutting.Rate it:
up against itIn a very difficult position.Rate it:
Up Against the WallIn serious trouble, in desperate situation, in serious difficultiesRate it:
up and at 'emVigorously launched or launching into an activity; Also used to mean promptly awake and ready to start the day or given as a command to wake up, get out of bed, and get busy with activitiesRate it:
up and downupward and downward, alternatelyRate it:
up and downalternately forwards and backwards along a pathRate it:
up and downVertical; perpendicular; said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut.Rate it:
up and runningoperational, in operationRate it:
up forPlanned; next in line.Rate it:
up forWilling to participate in; interested in.Rate it:
up for grabsAvailable for anyone to obtain, claim or win.Rate it:
up frontOpen, honest; tending to disclose information; truthful.Rate it:
up hill and down daleHere and there; everywhere.Rate it:
up in armsAngry; preparing for a fight.Rate it:
up in armsTo be angry or upsetRate it:
up in armsTo be angry or upsetRate it:
up in herehere; in this place; it doesn't mean "up" (higher) literallyRate it:
up in one’s shitAn individual is interfering in another’s business; an individual with poor boundaries.Rate it:
up in the airWhen someone makes a comment that the other person’s answer is not the clear or definitive.Rate it:
up in the airLiteral: up in or into the sky or air.Rate it:
Up in the Air!Reference to situation, outlook, results as being; Uncertain, Questionable, Doubtful, Yet to be Determined, Resolved, Decided, Stated, Planned, Known, Ruled/ 'Go or No Go'!Rate it:
up jumped the devilwhen wrong is being doneRate it:
up nellie's on a nailWhat my mother used to say if I asked her where something was when I couldn't find itRate it:
up onWell-informed about.Rate it:
up on one's earAnnoyed, angry.Rate it:
up one's alleyMatching a person's interests or abilities well.Rate it:
up one's own asshaving an excessively high opinion of oneself.Rate it:
up one's sleeveHidden, in reserve.Rate it:
up poo creekAlternative form of up shit creekRate it:
up shit creekAlternative form of up the creek.Rate it:
up shit creek without a paddleAlternative form of up the creek without a paddle.Rate it:
up shit's creekAlternative form of up shit creek.Rate it:
up shit's creek without a paddleAlternative form of up shit creek.Rate it:
up someone's alleyMatching a person's interests or abilities well.Rate it:
up someone's streetperfectly suitable to someone; matching someone's interests and abilities.Rate it:
up the anteTo make something more desirable.Rate it:
up the anteTo raise the stakes of a hand of poker.Rate it:
up the creekIn trouble.Rate it:
up the creek without a paddleIn a difficult situation with no means of rectifying it.Rate it:
up the riverTo prison.Rate it:
up the riverUp The River To Sing Sing PrisonRate it:
up the wallCrazy, mad.Rate it:
up the wallsVery busy, swamped.Rate it:
up the wazooexcessive or excessively; too much.Rate it:

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