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IN THE SUDS

Definition: IN THE SUDS

IN THE SUDS

1. In turmoil or difficulty. [Colloq.] --Beau. & Fl.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: IN THE SUDS

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Commercial Usage: IN THE SUDS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Love in the Suds, a Town Eclogue: Being the Lamentation of Roscius for the Loss of His Nyky (Publication / Augustan Reprint Society, No. 246) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: IN THE SUDS

ThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Anagrams: IN THE SUDS

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.

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Alternative Orthography: IN THE SUDS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4E      54 48 45      53 55 44 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01010011 01010101 01000100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#83 &#85 &#68 &#83

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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