drop someone in it

present singular third person drops someone in it · participle present dropping someone in it · participle past dropped someone in it · past dropped someone in it

1. To put someone in a difficult situation.

   Not so fast. I need to be sure you don't drop me in it.

   2013, Robert Goddard, The Ways of the World, →ISBN, page 142

   2 more examples

   The poor bastard's in the shit with the syndicate in London. They want thirty grand from him. He's right on the floor at the moment. Seeing that we dropped him in it, yeah and don't forget he doesn't know it was us who had him over.

   2001, William F. Gray, The Villain, →ISBN, page 256

   You weren't really worried, were you? You know I wouldn't drop you in it.

   2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 99

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, in.