水深火热 ------------ be in deep water

例句：
A: How were those refugees in the concentration camp?
在集中营的那些难民如何了？
B: They were really in deep water and oppressed every day.
他们处于水深火热之中，且天天受到压迫。

同义词：
get into hot water
go through fire and water
hand in a clinch and no knife to cat the seizing