Up a stump

prep_phrase, slang

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Prep_phrase
  1. 1
    At a loss, puzzled, in a bind. informal

    "GEO. Why it's got to. Suppose we wandered out of it and took a chance at the language on our own responsibility, where the nation would we be? Up a stump, that's where. Our only safety is in sticking like wax to the text."

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