to dig oneself into a hole
[dig] a hole for {oneself}to dig oneself into a hole
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to do something that gets oneself stuck into a difficulty
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Disapproving
Idiom
Informal
Exempel
The company's CEO made a series of ill-advised business decisions that dug the company into a financial hole, leading to its eventual bankruptcy.
