put (someone or something) in a hole
put (someone or something) in a hole
To put a person, group, organization, etc., in a difficult, undesirable, or disadvantageous position. The disappearance of manufacturing jobs put the entire state in a hole that they've yet to climb out of. My computer had a major crash this afternoon that's really put me in a hole.
See also: hole, put
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- put (something) in with (someone or something)
- put (one) up for (something)
- put (one's) back into (something)
- put (one's) back to (something)
- put back to
- put on the block
- put (something) on the block
- put back
- put a cap on
- put a cap on (something)