English
Alternative forms
Adjective
screwed, blued and tattooed
- (idiomatic) Placed in a perplexing, very difficult situation, especially a situation in which one has been unjustly victimized.
- 1993 Oct. 27, Molly Ivins, "Nafta Will Bring Lower Wages," Gainesville Sun, p. 10A (retrieved 23 July 2013):
- Bubba is already getting shafted—as he says himself, screwed, blued and tattooed.
- 2006 Feb. 8, Terry Jones, "Is the fix in? The judging scandal that rocked figure skating, Edmonton Sun (Canada) (retrieved 23 July 2013):
- "The Canadians were hosed. They were screwed, blued and tattooed."
- 2008, Riki Ott, Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, ISBN 9781603581110, p. 92:
- He wailed, “I've been had, snookered, fucked, screwed, blued, and tattooed!”
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