in the hole

hole | Business English

hole
noun
uk /həʊl/us
[ C ]
a loss or an amount that cannot be explained:
He's a fund manager who has fashioned a career by finding the holes in financial statements.
The company has revealed a £20m hole in its pension fund because of collapsing share markets.
 be in a holeUKinformal
to be in a difficult situation:
We've lost the order and we're in a bit of a hole.
 in the holeUSinformal
in debt:
the account is $143 in the hole
 make a hole in sth
to reduce an amount of money by a lot:
The price of travel can make a hole in even the deepest pocket.

Examples of hole

hole
The edges of these sherds had been smoothed and holes pierced through the centres.
At compile-time, we perform register allocation of these templates to produce machine-code templates with holes.
In other words, any change to the function's templates or holes may affect how its parent needs to generate the function.
An enlarged view of those spines (fig. 6 inset) show that they are located in crater-like holes in the tegument.
The spherical hohlraum was 2- 4 mm in diameter with 6 laser entrance holes.
Replacement of holes in generalized expressions is defined as for ordinary contexts.
Note the development of a primary street consisting of six large holes and a secondary street consisting of six small holes.
They need to remember where there might be water holes many days walk away in times of drought.
A reed-tube instrument (clarinet-like), repitched by opening closing holes.
A complimentary concept concerns topological derivatives [123, 124], which measure the variation with respect to the nucleation of holes.
On two separate occasions, holes were cut into the second floor for the burial of two adult individuals.
The issues are the closure of diagnostic holes in the hohlraum wall or the use of laser entrance holes for diagnosis.
A diameter of six laser entrance holes were 0.6 mm for a hohlraum 2 mm in diameter and 0.7 mm for a 4-mm hohlraum.
Core holes, charge disorder, and transition from metallic to plasma properties in ultrashort pulse irradiation of metals.
The difference comes from the appearance of six non-vanishing mean velocity holes.
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Collocations withhole

hole

These are words often used in combination with hole.

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circular hole
At the beginning of a trial, an experimenter put the disc in the circularhole and encouraged the subject to take it off.
dark hole
Sadly, that is done through the usual channels—that darkhole that many people refer to from time to time.
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