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Definition: IN THE SUDS |
IN THE SUDS1. In turmoil or difficulty. [Colloq.] --Beau. & Fl. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen. |
Difficulty | Under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape; Noun: in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The patriotick barber of New York, or the Captain in the suds. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tundishes. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-n-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: dissent, dunites, niduses, nudists, shunted, sithens, snidest, studies, tissued, tundish, tushies. | |
-3 letters: deists, desist, dhutis, dishes, disuse, dunite, duties, heists, hinted, hissed, histed, hunted, indues, insets, issued, nudest, nudies, nudist, shends, shiest, shined, shines, shunts, shuted, shutes, steins, suints, suited, suites, sunset, teinds, tenuis, theins, thesis, tissue, tushed, tushes, tushie, tusseh, undies. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-n-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: dianthuses. | |
+2 letters: doughtiness, studentship, undershirts. | |
+3 letters: droughtiness, studentships. | |
+4 letters: distinguished, distinguishes, doughtinesses, unestablished. | |
+5 letters: delightfulness, disfurnishment, droughtinesses, outlandishness, thunderstrikes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E      54 48 45      53 55 44 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01010011 01010101 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N   T H E   S U D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E      0054 0048 0045      0053 0055 0044 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43482544239253553853 |
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