in the cart
in the cart
in trouble or difficulty – British informal
A cart was formerly used to take convicted criminals to the public gallows and to expose prostitutes and other offenders to public humiliation in the streets.
Related Idioms :
put the cart before the horse
reverse the proper order or procedure of something.
A medieval version of this expression was set the oxen before the yoke. The version with horse and cart dates from the early 16th century.
1998 - Spectator - It's putting the cart before the horse. All history shows that if you want to create a political union, you do that first and the single currency follows.
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