get stuck

get stuck  {v. phr.}

1. To be victimized; be cheated.

The Smiths sure got stuck when they bought that secondhand car; it broke down just two days after they got it.

2. To become entrapped or embroiled in a physical, emotional, or social obstacle so as to be unable to free oneself.

Last winter our car got stuck in the snow and we had to walk home.

Poor Jeff is stuck in a terrible job.