having lost money when gambling or investing; in solitary confinement, in a dark jail cell
By the time he left the poker game he was $500 in the hole.
If a prisoner tries to escape they put him in the hole.
having lost money when gambling or investing; in solitary confinement, in a dark jail cell
By the time he left the poker game he was $500 in the hole.
If a prisoner tries to escape they put him in the hole.
Wayne Magnuson. English idioms vocabulary. Словарь английских идиом. 2012