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Slang Dictionary
up shit creek (without a paddle)

and up the creek (without a paddle); up a creek
  1. mod.
    in an awkward position with no easy way out. (Usually objectionable.) : There I was, at Disney World with only a measly $47.54. I was literally up the creek without a paddle. , You are up a creek! You got yourself into it, so get yourself out.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

up a creek

Also, up shit creek; up the creek (without a paddle). In trouble, in a serious predicament, as in If the check doesn't arrive today I'm up a creek, or The car wouldn't start, so I was up the creek without a paddle. This slangy idiom conjures up the image of a stranded canoeist with no way of moving (paddling) the canoe. President Harry S. Truman used the first term in a letter in 1918. The first variant is considered vulgar.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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