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hole in one

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hole in one 
1. Lit. an instance of hitting a golf ball from the tee to the hole in only one try. (From the game of golf.) John made a hole in one yesterday. I've never gotten a hole in one.
2. Fig. an instance of succeeding the first time. It worked the first time I tried it—a hole in one. Bob got a hole in one on that sale. A lady walked in the door, and he sold her a car in five minutes.
See also: hole, one


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the bag hanging on the door was certainly her own piece-bag, with a hole in one corner.
As he spoke Wilson had been boring a hole in one of the water kegs, and as Spider held a tin cup he tilted the keg to pour a draft of the precious fluid.
She had on a short, black, two-penny frock (une petite robe de deux sous) and there was a hole in one of her stockings.
 
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