“we have a situation”の意味は

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Jones:
Morning, sunshines. Coffee? What we got? We got any headlines?
Cruz:
Uh, not much. Although they keep bitching about his bible?
Jones:
Could be a debt ledger.
Cruz:
Well, whatever it is, it’s missing and they ain’t happy about it.
Agent:
Hey, guys, we have a situation.
Cruz:
Is that Barelli? What’s he doing down here?

さて、“we have a situation”とはどのような意味なのでしょうか。

So “we have a situation” means “we have a problem”, “something is wrong”, “it is a difficult situation”.
So “we have a situation”, “we have to take care of this”.

Instead of “a situation”, you can say “we have a problem”, “we have some trouble”, “something is wrong”, different ways to say that.
And also, for example in a sentence,
“we have a situation at the head office.
The boss and the manager are arguing, and having a big fight. So it is really a big situation.
Everybody has stopped working.
We have a situation there”.

Another situation is a man with a knife is on a train platform.
So one policeman says to other policemen,
“we have a situation”.

situation 　重大な局面、問題を含む状態、特筆すべき状態

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