in the hole

Prepositional phrase

 * 1)  Having suffered net losses; in debt.
 * 2) * 1993, Shelby Foote, introduction to Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, The Modern Library (1993), ISBN 9780679641292, unnumbered pages:
 * Further testimony to his commercial incompetence lay in the fact that, at fifty cents a copy, a complete sellout would have left him worse than $300 in the hole—proof enough, if proof was needed, that it wasn't primarily money he was after; it was fame.
 * 1)  Of a card ("the hole card") which is dealt face down and thus unknown to all but its holder; hence  in reserve; in particular ace in the hole.
 * 1)  Of a card ("the hole card") which is dealt face down and thus unknown to all but its holder; hence  in reserve; in particular ace in the hole.
 * 1)  Of a card ("the hole card") which is dealt face down and thus unknown to all but its holder; hence  in reserve; in particular ace in the hole.