When life hasn't been so kind to you and your in a deep pit and life throws you a rope covered in shit and kerosene and just when you think there might be some hope, life lights the rope from the top and you find yourself making zero positive progress of anything as usual and your still staying at square one.
When life isnt kind to you and you only get the shit rope and you are shit of luck in other words unfortunate.
2) A famous lyric from Warren Zevon's 1978 hit "Lawyers, Guns, And Money", singing it in reference to him getting found while on the run right after he realized he tried to bed a woman he didn't know was a Russian spy until it was too late:
And I'm hiding in Honduras/I'm a desperate man/Send lawyers, guns, and money/The shit has hit the fan