Synonyms for behind the eight-ball
be·hind the eight-ball

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1. behind the eight-balladjective

   In a difficult situation or tight spot.

   After his last two projects failed, he was really behind the eight-ball.

   Synonyms:
   snookered

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1. Steve Gregg:

   I really don't feel like they have any interest in supporting drivers, lyft seems to be kind of behind the eight ball in comparison to Uber.

2. The Oilers captain:

   The whole team was n’t very good to start, top to bottom, they were obviously ready to go and got the jump on us. And we could n’t stop the bleeding until it was a little too late and put ourselves a little too far behind the eight ball.

3. The President:

   I guess I shouldn't apologize, but I do apologize for the fact that the United States -- the last administration pulled out of the Paris accord. It put us sort of behind the eight ball a little bit.

4. Tom Kloza:

   Russian oil is not crucial to United States. United States's crucial to Europe, i don't know what Europe is going to do without Russian crude. If you take it away, Europe is really behind the eight ball.

5. Gretchen Whitmer:

   We have, as a nation, I think been behind the eight ball from the beginning, testing, testing, testing is crucial and this supply chain issue remains a major problem.