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behind the eight ball

To be behind the eight ball and up a tree at the same time is very bad business.

"From that point on, we were behind the eight ball.

He has been behind the eight ball every time so it is very hard if they say, "Sorry, you are out mate".

"We were behind the eight ball from the beginning."

"It's one thing being behind the eight ball in our division.

"We're not used to public campaigns, and here we are behind the eight ball with an uphill battle."

"The average person walking into City Hall is behind the eight ball before he ever gets to the first step."

There are a lot of issues where many clubs are behind the eight ball."

Now the Red Sox are behind the eight ball.

We don't want to be behind the eight ball on this, do we?"

"With the top guys, you are going to be behind the eight ball if you don't have a strategy.

I knew as an Hispanic I was behind the eight ball going in."

George is singular, so by definition it's problematic, and anyone would be behind the eight ball from the start."'

We don't want to be behind the eight ball and be dealing with a situation where we have to play catch-up."

Funny about you . . . you've always been behind the eight ball, Iron Eyes.

"They've still got the most dominant player on the planet, so we're always going to be behind the eight ball when you talk about the Lakers," Kidd said.

"There was great concern that we were behind the eight ball on the P.R. kind of thing," said Mr. Bedinghaus, the state party treasurer.

"Portfolio managers are behind the eight ball once again starting out the new quarter," he said, "and you can expect some forced buying as they look to catch up to their benchmarks.

Since this whole mess began we have been behind the eight ball, stuck in the mud, up the creek paddleless and getting nowhere as fast as a turgid turtle."

But in describing him as a student, Jim Kitchen, the associate dean of students at U.N.L.V., said, "J. R. Rider was behind the eight ball when he came here."

There, by themselves at a pool table in a room that holds maybe 30 of them, three men wielded their cue sticks listlessly and seemed on this occasion to be behind the eight ball, emotionally at least.

"This area is behind the eight ball because with rockfish in the early summer, other fishing later on and oysters in the late fall we could work the bay seven months a year and make a nice living," Harrison said.

'Behind the Eight Ball' "He was behind the eight ball, stepping into a job on a team that had high expectations, so to do what he has done, under the pressure he's been under, is impressive," Oates said.