up shit creek (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Outstanding find.  Cf. earlier "send up Salt River."

  JL

"Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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OED has 1937 for "up shit creek"
_Message of the President of the United States and Accompanying
Documents to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Third
Session of the Fortieth Congress. Report of the Secretary of War Part
1._ Washington, Government Printing Office, 1868.

"He, Parker, then said, "well, our men put old Lincoln up Shit creek,
and we'll put old Dill up." " p. 480
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