screwed, blued and tattooed

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screwed, blued and tattooed

  1. Placed in a perplexing, very difficult situation, especially a situation in which one has been unjustly victimized.
    • 1993 October 27, Molly Ivins, “Nafta Will Bring Lower Wages”, in Gainesville Sun, retrieved 23 July 2013, page 10A:
      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, page 92:
      He wailed, “I've been had, snookered, fucked, screwed, blued, and tattooed!

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