Screwed, Blued And Tattooed Meaning

(idiomatic) Placed in a perplexing, very difficult situation, especially a situation in which one has been unjustly victimized.

Example: 1993 Oct. 27, Molly Ivins, "Nafta Will Bring Lower Wages," Gainesville Sun, p. 10A (retrieved 23 July 2013):
  Bubba is already getting shafted—as he says himself, screwed, blued and tattooed.
2006 Feb. 8, Terry Jones, "Is the fix in? The judging scandal that rocked figure skating, Edmonton Sun (Canada) (retrieved 23 July 2013):
  "The Canadians were hosed. They were screwed, blued and tattooed."
2008, Riki Ott, Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, ISBN 9781603581110, p. 92:
  He wailed, “I've been had, snookered, fucked, screwed, blued, and tattooed!”