Related Clues:

• Stuck
• Embarrassingly stuck
• Troubled
• Needing to be bailed out, perhaps
• Up the creek
• Needing help
• Having trouble
• Behind the eight ball
• Surrounded by standstill traffic
• Trouble-ridden
• Up the creek, so to speak
• In need of bailing out, perhaps
• Facing difficulty
• Up the creek (h,h)
• Stuck, sort of