A slang idiom meaning to get into serious trouble or a difficult predicament — to become caught up in a painful or uncomfortable situation of one's own making.
A slang idiom meaning to get into serious trouble or a difficult predicament — to become caught up in a painful or uncomfortable situation of one's own making. The mechanical image of getting body parts caught in a mangle adds urgency and physical discomfort to the sense of trouble. Primarily American usage.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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In its most literal sense, a mangler is someone or something that mangles — twists, tears, or mutilates something, whether laundry in a mechanical mangle or more figuratively a piece of text, a language, or a task. As slang, it can describe someone who habitually botches things or 'mangles' language (e.g., a mangler of idioms). In UK English, the mangle was a household laundry device, so 'mangler' as the operator of that machine was once an ordinary occupational term. Today it reads primarily as humorous or figurative.
(idiomatic, Britain, Ireland, humorous, informal, ) To become overwrought or unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter.
(North America, informal, vulgar) An uncomfortable personal state of affairs involving injury, defeat, or other trouble, especially a state of affairs resulting from one's own ill-considered actions.
(idiomatic, slang) To get into trouble.
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(slang, also, AAVE) To misunderstand or misconstrue; to misinterpret; to be confused or in error.