be in a pretty pickle
be in a right pickle
be in a pickle

I should be in a pretty pickle if anything serious happened to you!"

We would have been in a pretty pickle if you hadn't turned up."

But they would-all be in a pretty pickle if someone came in needing medicine badly.

I'm going straight off to Mr. Goon to tell him about you - then you'll be in a pretty pickle I can tell you.

And so this grand procession wended its way to the royal game preserve, and many jokes were made, and boasts, and haughty toasts, and no one gave a thought to the two constructors, except perhaps to remark that those fools were in a pretty pickle now.