knee-deep in the Big Muddy

Meaning: (chieflyUS,idiomatic)Stuckin apredicament;miredin a difficult situation, especially one resulting from poorjudgmentor badleadership.1994September 16,Cal Thomas, “Clinton should heed Gore advice”, inNew York Daily News, retrieved 4 Jan. 2010:Polls show three-quarters of the people don't want us to invade Haiti. Nonetheless, it appears we're about to goknee-deep in the Big Muddy.2002July 16, Edward Iwata, “Enron faces 'hornet's nest' of charges”, inUSA Today, retrieved 4 Jan. 2010:The 40-year-old Fastow, a hot-tempered financial whiz, engineered the controversial partnerships that led to Enron's meltdown. . . . "He'sknee-deep in the big muddy," Meagher says.2007, Janice Langan-Foxet al.,Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace,→ISBN,page142:In the classic ‘knee deep in the Big Muddy’ scenario (Staw, 1976), individuals continue to contribute to a losing cause long after it is clear that this is a tremendous waste of money.

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