plug the hole

to fix a recurring problem. Derived from the BP mess in the gulf.

Frank, we have recurring service issues with home office!

Sam, we have to plug the hole now!

by mbellman June 3, 2010

Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?

A lighthearted way of asking someone if an ongoing problem has yet been addressed. From a question asked President Barack Obama by his daughter, Malia, in regard to the disastrous 2010 British Petroleum / Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

"Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" the farmer's wife asked her husband after he came back from trying yet again to get the neighbor's horses out of the cornfield.

by maximo hudson May 27, 2010

that don't plug the hole

The standard reply to someone pointing out that the female you are interested in is married.

Bob: What are you looking at her for?
Joe: She's attractive.
Bob: Did you know she's already married.
Joe: Well, that don't plug the hole.

by BillyBuggy May 19, 2016