Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
if someone drops you in it
English answer:
if someone gets you in trouble
Added to glossary by
Kim Metzger
Apr 2, 2004 20:39
20 yrs ago
English term
if someone drops you in it
English
Art/Literary
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
"Dad's Army"
You've got to learn comradeship, Pikey boy. If someone nicks your kit - you make sure you nick someone else's. Always be first in the queue when the grub's up - then you can gobble up quick and go round a second time and have some more. And never volunteer. And look after number one - and if someone drops you in it, make sure you drop them in it. That the best part of the Army is the comradeship.
You've got to learn comradeship, Pikey boy. If someone nicks your kit - you make sure you nick someone else's. Always be first in the queue when the grub's up - then you can gobble up quick and go round a second time and have some more. And never volunteer. And look after number one - and if someone drops you in it, make sure you drop them in it. That the best part of the Army is the comradeship.
Responses
| 3 +18 | Guess |
Kim Metzger
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| 5 +5 | to put someone into an awkward situation... |
Tony M
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| 5 +4 | puts you in a bad situation |
Madeleine MacRae Klintebo
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Responses
+18
5 mins
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Mexico
Native in English
&
English
Works in field
Mexico
Committed to Quality and Service
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: German to English
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50
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Guess
This is not American English. I'd say it's British or Irish English.
Nick = steal Grub = food. And look after number one = look after yourself.
I think "drop you in it" means "drops you in the shit", i.e. gets you in trouble with the sergeants, officers. If they report you to the authorities, then you should report them as well.
And if someone drops you in it, make sure you drop them in it.
Nick = steal Grub = food. And look after number one = look after yourself.
I think "drop you in it" means "drops you in the shit", i.e. gets you in trouble with the sergeants, officers. If they report you to the authorities, then you should report them as well.
And if someone drops you in it, make sure you drop them in it.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you all for a very interesting and enlightening discussion. :)"
+4
5 mins
Madeleine MacRae Klintebo
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
&
English
United Kingdom
Bilingual and bicultural (SE-UK & UK-SE)
Native in: English 
, Swedish
Works in: Swedish to English, English to Swedish, English, and 1 more.
puts you in a bad situation
Somebody makes sure you end up in a bad situation.
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Note added at 7 mins (2004-04-02 20:46:57 GMT)
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Peer comment(s):
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Vicky Papaprodromou
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Thank you.
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chica nueva
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DGK T-I
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Jörgen Slet
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+5
8 mins
to put someone into an awkward situation...
It may be deliberate, or inadvertent. For example, if I's said I was working late last night, when in fact I went to the bar, and then one of my friends told my wife he'd seen me in the bar, that would mean that he had 'dropped me in it' --- and he might have done so unwittingly, or on purpose.
The character giving this advice to Pike is a cyncial, worldly-wise person, who believes in "an eye for an eye and a a tooth for a tooth"
And by the way, the "it" in which one is dropped refers to sh*t (excrement)!
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In reply to all the discussion about No. 1 and No. 2, I have to confess I had completely missed the point here! I didn\'t realise answerer was referring to the expression in the quotation about \"looking after number one\", which of course means \"putting yourself first\"! Nothing to do with bodily functions this time!
And no, it\'s NOT specifically Irish, but very definitely British English. By the way, the series, long-running though it was, did NOT actually RUN for 40 years (that WOULD be a record!) --- but it was repeated on and off over that period, I believe. Classic British comedy, and a vital document for cultural understanding of our British psyche...
The character giving this advice to Pike is a cyncial, worldly-wise person, who believes in "an eye for an eye and a a tooth for a tooth"
And by the way, the "it" in which one is dropped refers to sh*t (excrement)!
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Note added at 1 day 1 hr 45 mins (2004-04-03 22:25:14 GMT)
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In reply to all the discussion about No. 1 and No. 2, I have to confess I had completely missed the point here! I didn\'t realise answerer was referring to the expression in the quotation about \"looking after number one\", which of course means \"putting yourself first\"! Nothing to do with bodily functions this time!
And no, it\'s NOT specifically Irish, but very definitely British English. By the way, the series, long-running though it was, did NOT actually RUN for 40 years (that WOULD be a record!) --- but it was repeated on and off over that period, I believe. Classic British comedy, and a vital document for cultural understanding of our British psyche...
Peer comment(s):
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cmwilliams (X)
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Thanks, CMW!
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chica nueva
1 hr
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Thanks, Iai'an!
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DGK T-I
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Thanks, Doc!
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Refugio
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Thanks, Ruth!
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Jörgen Slet
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Thanks, Jörgen!
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