“Up a creek without a paddle” is a tame one, editing to shit’s creek as needed. “Shit on a shingle” was one my dad would say, tho I don’t like to visualize my roof in such a situation (and honestly I’m not sure exactly what he meant - perhaps something akin to a slippery slope - ick. Of course there’s FUBAR” the colloquial military term we’ve all come to know and love seems to qualify... as in that hospital ER was all kinds of FUBAR.
When my kids were teens we had dinner discussion about whether a situation was FUBAR or SNAFU. Like, my extended family was SNAFU because it lacked surprise: “situation normal.” FUBAR holds to the higher bar of “beyond all reason.”
“Up a creek without a paddle” is a tame one, editing to shit’s creek as needed. “Shit on a shingle” was one my dad would say, tho I don’t like to visualize my roof in such a situation (and honestly I’m not sure exactly what he meant - perhaps something akin to a slippery slope - ick. Of course there’s FUBAR” the colloquial military term we’ve all come to know and love seems to qualify... as in that hospital ER was all kinds of FUBAR.
I was recently reminded that FUBAR and SNAFU are acronyms!
When my kids were teens we had dinner discussion about whether a situation was FUBAR or SNAFU. Like, my extended family was SNAFU because it lacked surprise: “situation normal.” FUBAR holds to the higher bar of “beyond all reason.”
This is maybe the best dinner table topic I have ever heard