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

VOA: special.2009.11.22

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

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Often,the ace in the hole wins the game.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Fire in the hole!

VOA: standard.other

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

VOA: special.2011.06.14

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

VOA: special.2010.04.12

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

VOA: special.2010.08.03

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

VOA: special.2010.03.22

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

VOA: special.2009.02.16

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

VOA: special.2009.12.12

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

VOA: special.2009.01.20

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

VOA: special.2010.03.14

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

VOA: special.2009.09.16

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

VOA: special.2011.04.05

"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there, When Washington took it across the Delaware.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

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

She was the first female golfer to score lower than three hundred in a seventy-two hole tournament.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

It would die soon, and they would burn a hole in the frozen ground to bury it.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Today, the government controls about ninety-seven percent of all the land in the Jackson Hole area.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

After that,if you do fertilize the bulbs, do not mix the fertilizer in the planting hole.

VOA: special.2011.04.12

The Marines attacked. They broke open a small hole in the door of the brick building.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Some of the stores in Jackson Hole sell unusual things, like furniture made of deer antlers.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

After he spent a winter in the area, his friends started to call it "Jackson's Hole.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

The valley looks like a hole in the middle of the mountains that surround it.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

He had a bright red flower in the button hole of his black jacket.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

All that was left was a stone for the last hole in the wall.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

A huge hole was torn in the front of it a long time ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.12