Or you might be leading your mutinous colleagues to the captain´s cabin and you hammer on the door and he sticks his great head out with a cutlass in either hand and you say `We´re taking over the ship, you scum, and the lads are right with me!´ and he says `What lads?´ and you suddenly feel a great emptiness behind you and you say `Um....´
In other words, it´s the familiar hot sinking feeling experienced by everyone who has let the waves of their own anger throw them far up on the beach of retribution, leaving them, in the poetic language of the everyday, in shit creek.
LoL!