For example, you hear the expression, ace in the hole, used by many people who would never think of going near a poker table.

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But the box is built so you can not turn the bar toward the hole.

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An ace in the hole is an argument, plan or thing kept hidden until needed.

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When this happened, my friend would have to go in the hole.

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One by one, the Marines moved through the hole.

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Often,the ace in the hole wins the game.

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We need to make sure that all Americans, not just the folks who happen to work on Wall Street, feel that we are digging ourselves out of the hole,"

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Fire in the hole!

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It looks severely damaged. But the huge hole, the names and other marks seem to add to its sound.

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There is a small hole in the side to drain out extra moisture and keep from drowning the plants.

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During the summers, she studied the ocean and its life forms at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts.

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Poor Billy! A bullet came out of the sky one day and tore a great hole in Billy's chest.

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Professor Atema works with Boston University and the Marine Biological Laboratory at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, both in Massachusetts.

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The fifty-nine year old Watson needed to make a short attempt on his final hole to win the British Open.

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A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly.

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Mr.Hoff says the trick is that nature does not dig a hole like we humans do to plant seeds.

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You can put your hands through a hole in a clear, plastic box and hold the huge piece of gold.

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In fact, the average sale price of a single-family home in Jackson Hole is more than one million dollars.

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One argument against the comet theory is that a comet would have left a large hole in the Earth's surface.

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In modern terms,the hot oven that the glassblower uses to quickly reheat the glass is called a "glory hole."

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Each hair on a person's head grows from a single tube-like hole in the skin called a follicle.

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His tall hat flew off and soldiers found it on the ground with a bullet hole through it.

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Scientists believe it is evidence that a large object struck Jupiter, cutting a hole in the atmosphere of the huge, gaseous planet.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

People come to Jackson Hole,Wyoming, from around the world to enjoy the best of cowboy and mountain culture.

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