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English Idiom: Up a tree
Have you ever found yourself up a tree? No, I don’t mean in the literal sense like this kitty.
If you are a mature adult, you should not be climbing trees in the first place. I mean in the idiomatic sense.
If you find yourself up a tree, it means that you have a problem with no easy solution and cannot decide what to do.
This idiom is used in various ways.
For example, a person could be up a tree regarding retirement.
Their doctor tells them that it is time to retire, but their bank account says that they do not have enough money.
They now have a conundrum which has no easy solution.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 82.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.