Synonyms for eight ball
eight ball

Princeton's WordNet

1. eight ballnoun

   a black pool ball bearing the number 8; should be the last to go in certain pool games

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1. 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.

2. Darin Anderson:

   With prices as low as they are you need to maximize yields as much as you can, you already know you are going to be behind the eight ball from the get go. Everyone is behind.

3. Chris Kubas:

   It's a perfect storm, and we just didn't have enough time to react, now we're just behind the eight ball, and I have no idea when we'll get out from behind it. We're doing the best we can to accommodate all our customers.

4. Tom Kloza:

   Russian oil is not crucial to The US. The US'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. David Brock:

   It's only been in the last week or so where a real panic has set in that Sanders could be the nominee, the donor class is, as usual, way behind the eight ball.