Possible Clues:

• Uncertain what to do, with income less than outlay?
• Stuck
• Not making a profit makes one perplexed
• For less than you paid
• How not to run a business
• Uncertain what to do - bewildered
• Don't know what to do, no profit in it?
• Puzzled volunteers look inside a ship
• Resulting in deficit
• Perplexed by volunteer army in a defeat