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in trouble with
Idioms and Phrases
In difficulties with someone, especially an authority. For example, If they don't shovel their walk, they'll be in trouble with their neighbors . This idiom is also put as get in or into trouble with , as in Watch what you say or you'll get into trouble with the teacher . [Mid-1500s] Also see hot water ; in a fix .Example Sentences
But the qualities that make him popular with his peers often land him in trouble with his teachers, who give him detentions or send him to isolation for making what his mother describes as "inappropriate comments".
Facing a felony charge and jail time, he spent the majority of his adolescence in trouble with the law for vandalism.
Cole’s Pete Cochran, Peggy Lipton’s Julie Barnes and Linc Hayes, played by Clarence Williams III, were all young people in trouble with the law.
“So,” said the dreamboat climber man, “you really need to have both hands on the rope when you belay. It’s not safe the way you’re doing it. You’ll get in trouble with the gym staff.”
At the age of 15, Mr Khalife said he got in trouble with the police for shoplifting, but the case did not go to court.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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