lose the dressing room

lose the dressing room (third-person singular simple present loses the dressing room, present participle losing the dressing room, simple past and past participle lost the dressing room)

1. (soccer) Of a team manager: to lose the respect and trust of one's players.
   • 2023 May 31, 'Industry Insider', “DfT calls time on TPE”, in RAIL, number 984, page 68:

     But it is very clear that (using football parlance) 'the management has lost the dressing room', following earlier misjudged decisions about reducing operating costs.

• Colin McIntosh, editor (2013), “lose the dressing room”, in Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 4th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 26 February 2017, reproduced in the Cambridge English Dictionary website, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.