Sports idioms

After losing his job, he was .......... and out worried about how he would pay the rent for his apartment next month.

Steven will call the .......... for the week our boss is on leave.

The team tested the .......... before committing to the product.

They succeeded despite the odds .......... them.

The project manager was in .......... when it was learned that he tendered work to a company that he owned.

The intern was learning the .......... before being provided with full access to the files.

He was .......... on thin ice by taking extra-long lunch breaks.

The new recruit has a probation period to learn the ...........

The new office junior was ........ around the previous staff member.

‘It was impossible to ........ them all,’ he said while throwing the proposal in the bin.