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up the proverbial

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English

Syllables
up- the prover-bial
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Euphemistic form of up shit creek.

Questions

What does up the proverbial mean?
Euphemistic form of up shit creek.

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