when you are in a hole, stop digging
- when you are in a hole, stop digging
1988 D. HEALEY Observer in J. Care (ed.) Sayings of the Eighties It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes; if you are in one, stop digging.
1989 U.S. News & World Report 23 Jan. CVI. iii. 46 (headline) When you’re in a hole, stop digging.
1997 Times 15 Sept. 1 William Hague seems to have forgotten the first rule of politics: when you are in a hole, stop digging.
2001 Spectator 1 Dec. 32 Parliament would be unwise to hand to somebody in Tehran, Lambeth Palace or Salt Lake City the power, by pronouncing something hateful, to create an offence under English law. You’re in a hole, Home Secretary. Stop digging.
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