in the hole

Instead, he kept those plans in reserve, an ace-in-the-hole, if tough new sanctions failed to bring Pyongyang around.

And they set out at an easy swing down the steep road to the village of Grassley-in-the-Hole.

We're going to have sausage-toad-in-the-hole, and mind you don't burn it.

It was the culinary forefather of toad-in-the-hole, hot-pot, Irish stew, and of that devil-dreaded Cornish pasty.

Afternoon, noisy and bloody at her Majesty's bear-garden at Hockly-in-the-Hole.

The next year, again, they are all for Hockley-in-the-Hole and bear-baiting.