dire straits

Put it all together, and the U.S. economy is in dire straits, possibly heading toward a shoal.

After all, her next book is a roman à clef about Gala, and writing about a woman who might be in dire straits would be exploitative.

By the time President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933, the nation was in dire straits.

But if you’ve jumped into these tepid waters anytime over the last decade or so, you know that shark horror is in dire straits.

Friedman argued the Dodgers’ injury problems this year don’t compare to the dire straits they navigated en route to last year’s World Series title.