Idiom
deep water
Meaning
A difficult or embarrassing situation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If you lie to your boss, you will be in deep water.”
“The company is in deep water after the manager lost all the client files.”
“By ignoring the warning signs and continuing to spend beyond his means, the investor found himself in deep water when the market suddenly crashed.”
Examples
simple
“If you lie to your boss, you will be in deep water.”
contextual
“The company is in deep water after the manager lost all the client files.”
complex
“By ignoring the warning signs and continuing to spend beyond his means, the investor found himself in deep water when the market suddenly crashed.”
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