Idiom
in Dickie's meadow
Meaning
in trouble, in a predicament, in a difficult situation
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If you lose your passport, you are in Dickie's meadow.”
“He forgot to finish the report before the deadline, so now he is in Dickie's meadow with his boss.”
“By failing to secure the necessary funding before the project launch, the entire team found themselves in Dickie's meadow, facing an uncertain and difficult future.”
Examples
simple
“If you lose your passport, you are in Dickie's meadow.”
contextual
“He forgot to finish the report before the deadline, so now he is in Dickie's meadow with his boss.”
complex
“By failing to secure the necessary funding before the project launch, the entire team found themselves in Dickie's meadow, facing an uncertain and difficult future.”
Origin
Uncertain. The first part may derive from the adjective dicky “troublesome”, later interpreted as a proper noun.
Key words
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