ass in a sling
Noun
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Noun
ass in a sling (uncountable)
- (North America, informal, mildly, vulgar) An uncomfortable personal state of affairs involving injury, defeat, or other trouble, especially a state of affairs resulting from one's own ill-considered actions.
- 1977, Smokey and the Bandit (film), screenplay, 10:21 ↗ (retrieved 24 July 2015):
- I see our asses in a sling if we get caught, that's what I see.
- 1986 April 27, Howard Kurtz, "Reagan's People: Issues of Propriety ↗," Washington Post (retrieved 24 July 2015):
- Dempsey briefed senior HUD officials on federal ethics rules in early 1981, he said, "and most of those who later got their ass in a sling sat there and ignored it."
- 1995 Dec. 19, Alex Sharkey, "Dear Roger Mear ↗," Independent (UK) (retrieved 24 July 2015):
- I think that kind of breathless egotism deserves little more than to limp home with its arse in a sling.
- 2011 June 15, Aaron Schafer, "Cardinals Still Struggling to Spell Relief ↗," Riverfront Times (retrieved 24 July 2015):
- [T]he bullpen's continued ineffectiveness has to fall on John Mozeliak. . . . If it ends up with Johnny Mo's ass in a sling, so be it.
- 2013 July, Ava Gardner and Peter Evans, "Three Men and a Goddess ↗," Vanity Fair (retrieved 24 July 2015):
- [Frank Sinatra] asked me what I was doing. I said, "The usual. Making pictures. You?" He said, "The usual. Getting my ass in a sling."
- 1977, Smokey and the Bandit (film), screenplay, 10:21 ↗ (retrieved 24 July 2015):
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