at a loss

‘I’m at a loss’: My boyfriend of nearly 10 years is naming his elderly parents as beneficiaries and giving them power of attorney.

Instead of selling at a loss, Mr Smith is filling his grain storage bins, in the hopes of better prices come spring.

Rodgers, too, was at a loss at how the officials reached the verdict they did.

Some garages have suspended operations to "wait out the crisis" rather than work at a loss, one manager told Russian media.

Erika Kirk also spoke of their one-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, saying that she was at a loss for how to explain their father's sudden death.