Idiom
dig oneself in a hole
Meaning
To put oneself in even more trouble.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Stop arguing or you will dig yourself in a hole.”
“By lying to his boss about the missing report, he only continued to dig himself in a hole.”
“With every desperate excuse he offered to the committee, he seemed to dig himself in a hole, making his eventual dismissal almost inevitable.”
Examples
simple
“Stop arguing or you will dig yourself in a hole.”
contextual
“By lying to his boss about the missing report, he only continued to dig himself in a hole.”
complex
“With every desperate excuse he offered to the committee, he seemed to dig himself in a hole, making his eventual dismissal almost inevitable.”
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