If the balancing act actually works, there will be lots of obvious losers, from forest rangers to Medicare recipients.

Being an obvious loser most of the year, I went on to play a lot of golf late in the year.

The boys in fancy dress are your obvious anachronistic losers.

In four spades, South has four "obvious" losers, two in each major suit.

It was sticking with an obvious loser with cost the party the last election - and possibly the next two !

There were only three obvious losers, but the defense was creative.

One problem is that Dad is such an obvious loser that it's almost impossible to work up interest in his plights.

The obvious loser is the local phone company when it completes a long-distance call disguised as a local one.

There were four obvious losers, and with routine play, the defense would be sure to take them.

The only obvious loser is the government and, indirectly, society as a whole.