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In Deep Water

What it means

In serious trouble, and further into it than you can comfortably handle.

Where it comes from

The Psalms use deep waters for exactly this kind of distress, floods coming in over someone's head. The image survives in a language spoken mostly by people who can swim.

The puzzle it came from

In Deep Water was the answer to the Phrasicle of November 9, 2025. The clue read In ____ ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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Phrasicle: In Deep Water

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