screwed

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screwed englanniksi

Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.

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(RQ:Joyce Dubliners)
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1641, Richard Chambers (merchant), quoted in Hannis Taylor, ''The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise, Part II: The After-Growth of the Constitution'', H.O. Houghton & Company (1889), p. 274,

… merchants are in no part of the world so screwed as in England. In Turkey, they have more encouragement.