be in the weeds AmE informal

But they could be lost in the weeds without care.

With an hour to go and without a first or main course, I was in the weeds.

One time we found a human arm in the weeds.

"All you have to do is leave a body in the weeds."

Spent the last two weeks in the weeds at work, with no one to blame but myself.

I've always laid in the weeds when I was going good.

So maybe it should be you lying in the weeds, not me.

Something moving in the weeds along the opposite bank caught our attention.

I looked at him lying over there in the weeds.

The gun was found in weeds nearby, the police said.