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in a jam

in trouble He is really in a jam now that his car is not working properly.

in a jam|jam

adv. phr., informal In a predicament; in a situation fraught with difficulty. If you continue to disregard the university instructions on how to take a test, you'll wind up in a jam with the head of the department.
Compare: IN A PICKLE, IN DEEP SHIT.

in (a bit of) a jam

In a alarming situation. I'm in a bit of a jam—I accidentally fabricated affairs with two altered men tonight! We're in a jam now because the auberge gave our allowance away!Learn more: bit, jam

in(to) a jam

Fig. in(to) a difficult situation. Mary cannot accumulate clue of the abounding times Dave got himself into a jam. I begin myself in a jam back my car overheated on the highway.Learn more: jam

in a jam

mod. in a difficult situation. I anticipate I’m array of in a jam. Learn more: jam

in a pinch

When hard-pressed. The British adaptation of this expression, “at a pinch,” dates from the fifteenth century, back William Caxton in his adaptation of The Book of Faytes of Armes and of Chyualrye (1489) wrote, “Corageously at a pynche [he] shal renne vpon hem.” By the time Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Black Arrow (1888) it additionally was put as, “It yet ability serve him, in a pinch.” A accompanying announcement of added contempo ancestry is in a jam, which analogously implies that one is “compressed” or “squeezed,” by circumstance, into a bound spot. Learn more: pinch

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