hell-of-a-hole

Updated: June 21, 2025

Dill took plenty of time to wind the line around his willow pole. "To use your own expressive phraseology, William," he said, when he had quite finished and had laid the pole down on the bank, "that will leave me in one hell-of-a-hole!" "That's what I thought," Billy returned apathetically. "Well, I must take these up to the cook." Dill held up the four fish he had caught.

B. M. Bower - The Long Shadow