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.

No such solicitude has gone to advocates for the millions of Californians in desperate economic straits while he pushes to slash the state’s social safety net.

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.