be in dire straits

Without him over the last 25 or 26 games, we'd be in dire straits.

But soon it ran out, and we were in dire straits.

Possibly for her own profit, but more likely because the family was in dire straits.

"We are far from being in dire straits," he insisted.

If it were not for her, we would be in dire straits indeed."

Its economy is in dire straits and there are few options to improve it.

But my growers are in dire straits and they need help."

"That means roughly two million people are in dire straits.

It could be difficult to justify such transfers if the economy were in dire straits.

At the time, the newspaper was in dire straits.

Now they do, and some of them, I know, are in dire straits."

Economies are in dire straits all over the world.

But he added that a deal was not assured, as the city's finances are in dire straits.

By 1995, the school was in dire straits financially.

Oregon State was in dire straits after fumbling again at their own 45-yard line.

My friends, whom I know are in dire straits financially, do not like talking about money, business or investing.

San Francisco's tourist industry, the lifeblood of its economy, is in dire straits.

For the farmers, many of whom are in dire straits, there has been some relief, with more promised.

But in a moment he saw that the creature was in dire straits.

We have no industrial base left - we are in dire straits.

America before the turn of the 20th century, it could be argued, was in dire straits.

"The state budget is in dire straits," she said.

But North Korea, by all accounts, is in dire straits.

Without this process, plants would be in dire straits, and yet we almost take it for granted."

"We would have been in dire straits if we lost tonight.