To suffer a financial loss, or to lose something valuable, generally through bad luck or bad investment of which one is only partially responsible, variation on, but less complete than, 'hook, line and sinker'.
Yea i don't know how it happened either but I lost my tackle on that house
The 2008 Market Crash should be investigated: almost two years after the mortgage crisis and everyone lost their tackle.
Lindsey caught me with Jane after that party; lost my tackle on that one.
The 2008 Market Crash should be investigated: almost two years after the mortgage crisis and everyone lost their tackle.
Lindsey caught me with Jane after that party; lost my tackle on that one.
by Wynken de Word April 20, 2010