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Re:At what grade level do presidential candidates debate? by kube-system on Friday October 16, 2020 @11:25PM (#24807236)
It’s not that common of an idiom in the US, but not unheard of.

I think most could figure out that he was referring to people being disadvantaged from context clues, though.

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Re:At what grade level do presidential candidates debate? by interestica on Friday October 16, 2020 @11:42PM (#24807311)
Yeah, it's easy enough to figure out that it means "bad" -- but that still misses the whole point of it as a metaphor. I think, being unaware of the billiards idiom, my brain first went to 'magic 8-ball' and wondered if he was referring to 'chance'.
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