"In deep weeds" (1993)

[Paul Johnson]

Paul Johnson
Certainly in the very early '80's "being in the weeds" was restaurant
slang for falling behind and losing control of your station.

Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>Today's NY Post editorial, "Turmoil by Toussaint," has said that "he's in
>the deep weeds."
>...
>Deep trouble. Deep shit. Deep doo-doo. Deep weeds?
>...
>Does the next HDAS have this for "weed"?
>...
>...
>...
>(GOOGLE NEWS)
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>_TURMOIL BY TOUSSAINT_
>(http://news.yahoo.com/s/nypost/20060121/cm_nypost/turmoilbytoussaint;_ylt=A86.I2GgFNJDqaAAxDj9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1
>YmNhdA--)
>Yahoo! News -  <NOBR>11 hours
>... Now he's in the deep  weeds with those very same members; he's facing
>heavy fines because  of the strike, the public is fearful of another round of
>transit  ...
>...
>...
>
>_No-burn days a hot issue with Kern  residents_
>(http://www.bakersfield.com/updates/story/5778493p-5795154c.html)
>Bakersfield  Californian (subscription), CA -  <NOBR>Dec 19,
>... Air district officials knew  they were heading for deep weeds when they
>established the  no-burn rule in 2003, but by then they were taking drastic
>steps to cut  ...
>...
>...
>(GOOGLE GROUPS)
>...
>_Democrats are in deep weeds in  California, says latest Time ..._
>(http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.democrats/browse_thread/thread/481da0a16f5a8
>827/d8f57b87575d4dbc?lnk=st&q="deep+weeds"&rnum=1&hl=en#d8f57b87575d4dbc)
>That's a HUGE  margin, Folks! The Democrats are in deep weeds. It is not only
> Liberals
>in California that are in trouble but rather liberals all over the  US. ...
>_alt.politics.democrats_
>(http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.democrats?lnk=sg&hl=en)  - Aug 9 2003, 7:30 pm by mange at merde.com - 12 messages - 6
>authors
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>_Mac security - help requested._
>(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.programmer/browse_thread/thread/798c3fab18d7d8c2/d7e1064418c497bf?lnk=st&q="de
>ep+weeds"&rnum=196&hl=en#d7e1064418c497bf)
>...  Start up with a system floppy. After you do this, you can turn it off or
> even
>change the password. Deep weeds here, people. Personally  ...
>_comp.sys.mac.programmer_
>(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.programmer?lnk=sg&hl=en)  - Jun 18 1993, 1:18 pm by Andrew Geweke - 8 messages - 8
>authors
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>...
>_Can an API be copyrighted?_
>(http://groups.google.com/group/misc.legal.computing/browse_thread/thread/6d521bcadadbfed9/e0a1df7a4237302f?lnk=st&q="deep+weed
>s"&rnum=200&hl=en#e0a1df7a4237302f)
>... DOS.  If I try to sell MY-DOS am I in deep weeds, legally speaking?  Note
>that I'm talking about *programming* interfaces, not GUIs. ...
>_misc.legal.computing_
>(http://groups.google.com/group/misc.legal.computing?lnk=sg&hl=en)  -  Feb 4 1993, 3:01 am by Bruce Hayden - 3 messages - 3 authors
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