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Shit Creek
noun
a notional remote, backwards place US- This man is from some hicky farm in Shit Creek, Georgia. He only knew whom to kill after passing through boot camp. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 133, 1968
- These were 18 or 19 year old kids from places like Shit Creek, Georgia, who now found themselves in the dog-eat-dog world of the U.S. paratroops. — Walter Johnson, Working in Canada, p. 134, 1975
▶ up shit creek; up shit creek without a paddle; up the creek
stranded, in trouble US, 1868
Embellishments abound.- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 191, 1950
- How about writing a composition for me, for English? I’ll be up the creek if I don’t got the goddamn thing in by Monday, the reason I ask. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 28, 1951
- I’m really up shit creek, there’s just no commercial person who can understand what I’m doing. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Lucien Carr, p. 562, 24 February 1956
- If Darden took the money and, by some chance, she didn’t trick anymore that night, he’d be up shit’s creek without a paddle, in a leaky canoe. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 172, 1968
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 217, 1968
- [T]hose fucking boogs may turn cannibal any minute! Then we’d really be up shit creek. — Terry Southern, Blue Movie, p. 182, 1970
- Now listen, sport, my twin brother’s up shit creek in a barbed wire canoe without a paddle[.] — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- Well, then, I guess you’re really up shit creek. — The Blues Brothers, 1980
- Then you will be up shit’s creek, and you won’t have a paddle. — George V. Higgins, Penance for Jerry Kennedy, p. 234, 1985
- I’m solo in shit creek innit? — Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bread in Wengen, p. 31, 1999
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