(slang) get (oneself) into a difficulty or into trouble. So, the
point is, in spite of any
rebuff that you get, or of difficulty digging into some book to find out what it means, you actually put yourself in a soup at once, the
moment that you
leave one
word in a sentence behind you, you do not know the meaning of.
- Studying Data Assimilation (9 July 64)