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Difference between Land someone in something and Land someone with something

land someone in something—(coll.) get a person into difficulties or trouble:

  • It is this decades-old addiction to spending that has landed us in this rotten economic crisis.

land someone with something—(coll.) cause a person to obtain or receive smth. (especially smth. unpleasant):

  • As usual with all sweep stakes I enter, lady luck has landed me with the worst horse in the entire field.