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in the soup

prep.phr. (context idiomatic English) In trouble.

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In the Soup

In the Soup is a 1992 independent comedy directed by Alexandre Rockwell. It stars Steve Buscemi as a self-conscious screenwriter who has written an unfilmable 500-page screenplay and is looking for a producer.

Tortured by self-doubt, financial ruin, and unrequited passion for his next door neighbor ( Jennifer Beals), Aldolfo places an ad offering his mammoth screenplay to the highest bidder. In steps Aldolfo's "guardian angel", Joe ( Seymour Cassel) a fast-talking shyster who promises to produce the film but has his own unique ideas regarding film financing.

In the Soup (1936 film)

In the Soup is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Ralph Lynn, Judy Gunn, Morton Selten and Nelson Keys.

Usage examples of "in the soup".

Only when my friends who had been so concerned over my diet had left me, because Nuchi had been sick in the soup, did I crawl into a corner of the drying loft where only a few sheets were hanging at the time, and throw up the few spoonfuls of reddish brew, in which I was surprised to find no vestiges of frogs.

If someone looked in one of the windows and saw you sitting here we'd all be in the soup.

But it didn't set well with the other fellows who had been patrol leaders when the word got around that I was responsible for the flies in the soup.

You go to the chapel again then, and Kay offers his sword to the vicar, and the vicar gives it back to him, and after that our good cook over there meets him at the door and claims his spurs as a reward, and says, 'I shall keep these spurs for you, and if at any time you don't behave like a true knight should do, why, I shall pop them in the soup.

Because if it isn't-if there's anything wrong at all-we'll be in the soup.

And you must never let him think you are, or you'll be in the soup.

There was fish in the soup, but it was fresh, as were the boiled roots and meager greens.

Look at 'im, that'n would sooner be boiled in the soup than sing wid yore pretty Pasque sittin' next to 'im!