Up The River/creek With No Paddle Idiom American Expressions and American Idioms - What does Up The River/creek With No Paddle Idiom mean?

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up the river/creek with no paddle What does up the river/creek with no paddle mean?	in trouble and unable to do anything about it	I think that we are up the river with no paddle now that our car has run out of gasoline.
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Up The River/creek With No Paddle Idiom