out of the hole
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“Once everything is shut down ... we’ll pump the water out of the hole that we have,” Anselmo Collins, DWP’s chief operating officer and senior assistant general manager said Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The lower a pension fund’s ratio, the harder it is to dig out of the hole even as taxpayers shovel out more and more money to keep the shortfall from growing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Curgenven said: "I think we'd have to pull ourselves out of the hole that we're in and then we can look to help other people again."
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
That included three double faults in her first service game, although she dug herself out of the hole to hold.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
The deeper he got, the harder it was to raise the dirt up and out of the hole.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
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