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The sound of the bat hitting the ball. The term is used in baseball to mean "immediately, without hesitation". For example, a baserunner may start running "on the crack of the bat", as opposed to waiting to see where the ball goes. Outfielders often use the sound of bat-meeting-ball as a clue to how far a ball has been hit.
The following is a list of phrases from sports that have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved usages and meanings independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games. The sport from which each phrase originates has been included immediately after the phrase.
Safe (baseball) Sandwich pick; Save (baseball) Scoreless innings streak; Scoring position; Series (baseball) Seventh-inning stretch; Shutout (baseball) Sidelines; Sign stealing; Single (baseball) Sistema Peralta; Slide (baseball) Slugging percentage; Slump (sports) Small ball (baseball) Speed Score; Squeeze play (baseball) Stolen base; Stolen ...
Also batting a thousand. Getting everything in a series of items right. In baseball, someone with a batting average of one thousand (written as 1.000) has had a hit for every at bat in the relevant time period (e.g., in a game). AHDI dates its non-baseball usage to the 1920s. [7] May also be used sarcastically when someone is getting everything ...
Based on baseball lingo, a sentence such as "That was a hit out of left field" was used by song pluggers who promoted recordings and sheet music, to describe a song requiring no effort to sell. [2] A "rocking chair hit" was the kind of song which came "out of left field" and sold itself, allowing the song plugger to relax. [ 2 ]
The idea is simple. Once a game, a manager gets to put his best batter at the plate regardless of where the batting order stands. So imagine, as a pitcher facing the Dodgers, you get Shohei Ohtani ...
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
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