an unpleasant situation in which a person or group of people criticizes you or your ideas.

It's your turn for the lions' den. Gordon wants to see you in his office now.

• be in the throes of
• be in the throes of doing something
• be in the throes of something
• be in the wind
• be in the wrong
• be in too deep
• be in touch
• be in train
• be in two minds
• be in your blood
• be in your cups
• be in your element
• be in your face
• be joined at the hip
• be jolly hockey sticks
• be just a pretty face
• be just the job
• be just up someone's street
• be just up street
• be just what the doctor ordered
• be knee-deep in
• be knee-deep in something
• be knee-high to a grasshopper
• be larger than life
• be laughing all the way to the bank