screwed, blued and tattooed

English

Alternative forms

• screwed, glued and tattooed

Adjective

screwed, blued and tattooed

1. Placed in a perplexing, very difficult situation, especially a situation in which one has been unjustly victimized.
   • 1993 Oct. 27, Molly Ivins, "Nafta Will Bring Lower Wages," Gainesville Sun, p. 10A (retrieved 23 July 2013):

     Bubba is already getting shafted—as he says himself, screwed, blued and tattooed.

   • 2006 Feb. 8, Terry Jones, "Is the fix in? The judging scandal that rocked figure skating, Edmonton Sun (Canada) (retrieved 23 July 2013):

     "The Canadians were hosed. They were screwed, blued and tattooed."

   • 2008, Riki Ott, Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, →ISBN, p. 92:

     He wailed, “I've been had, snookered, fucked, screwed, blued, and tattooed!”

References

• “screwed, blued and tattooed”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.