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eight ball

noun

  1. (in pool) the black ball, marked with the number eight

  2. in a difficult situation; snookered

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"The Hundred doesn't have six balls in every over. So why couldn't Test cricket have three sessions of 25 overs and eight balls for example?"

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A day never passed without me fully aware that we now lived our lives squarely behind the eight ball.

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“The ideal would be to alert them well before embers actually start falling,” he said, “because once that happens, you know you’re already behind the eight ball.”

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The 23-year-old, born in Surrey, took three wickets in eight balls in the England first innings and produced a terrifying burst on Tuesday.

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As pleasing for England was the performance of Bethell, who did not panic when taking only five runs from his first eight balls.

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