This slang phrase, like most street slang, is difficult to date and determine the origin of precisely. What we can say is that it, or at least the 'shit creek' part of it was known in the USA in the s as it appeared in the transcript of the Annual report of the [US] Secretary of War, in a section that included reports from districts of South Carolina:. In Lincoln's day, as now, 'shit creek' wasn't a real place, just a figurative way of describing somewhere unpleasant; somewhere one wouldn't want to be. The 'without a paddle' ending is just an intensifier, added by later wags for additional effect. This dates from the middle of the 20th century. They left the store ready to cry from worry.
up shit creek
Urban Dictionary: Up shit creek without a paddle
The origin of a phrase Up Shit Creek, one that I use on occasions, was made clear to me during a recent visit to Plymouth. I had never thought there was such a place as Shit Creek but records show that in Plymouth the creek now known as Stonehouse Creek was, during the 18 th century, known as Shit Creek because of the foul smelling mud that formed its banks. Millfield hospital housed 1, patients in sixty wards, its ten ward blocks being arranged around a courtyard with a central block containing the chapel, dispensary and staff housing. In those times any hospital stay was a dice with death and for many who arrived in Shit Creek the journey up it was a one way trip. To be Up Shit Creek therefore meant the person was in a bad situation, which was either slowly or rapidly getting worse with no evident way out. Patients for the he hospital were landed directly from the creek much of which has since been filled in to become Victoria Park playing fields because this area was filled in to celebrate the year reign of Queen Victoria. This area was formerly known as the Deadlake and is frequently marked as such on early maps of the locality.
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