in the hole
In debt; in trouble, especially financial trouble. For example, Joan is too extravagant; she's always in the hole, or Buying all these Christmas presents will put us in the hole for the next few months. [Colloquial; early 1800s] Also see in a bind.
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How to use in the hole in a sentence
Instead, he kept those plans in reserve, an ace-in-the-hole, if tough new sanctions failed to bring Pyongyang around.
And they set out at an easy swing down the steep road to the village of Grassley-in-the-Hole.
The Ball and The Cross | G.K. ChestertonWe're going to have sausage-toad-in-the-hole, and mind you don't burn it.
Mrs. Bindle | Hebert JenkinsIt was the culinary forefather of toad-in-the-hole, hot-pot, Irish stew, and of that devil-dreaded Cornish pasty.
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine | William Carew HazlittAfternoon, noisy and bloody at her Majesty's bear-garden at Hockly-in-the-Hole.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
The next year, again, they are all for Hockley-in-the-Hole and bear-baiting.
The Chaplain of the Fleet | Walter Besant and James Rice
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