full of holes

The bad news, Shallman continued, is that the county’s contracting process, closely scrutinized during the nearly three-year forensic audit, is full of holes.

“Although it had as much time as needed to prepare, BOP’s operational plan for closure of FCI Dublin was ill-conceived and, like Swiss cheese, full of holes,” the judge wrote Wednesday.

This extracted land may be full of holes but also, we sense, emotional mines.

He had sassed a white woman, was lynched and shot full of holes, and his bloody clothes were left in the Decatur fairgrounds for a year.

“I came here to build a canoe together for my country. Instead we have built a canoe with a weak and leaky hull, full of holes. Instead we have put it in the water.”