Up a gum tree
“Without the car keys, we're up a gum tree.”
In a difficult or awkward situation with no easy way out.
— Traditional Australia Wisdom, Australia
Source: Traditional Australian idiom, public-domain oral tradition
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Fair dinkum.
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