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See English language idioms derived from baseball and baseball metaphors for sex. Examination of the ethnocultural relevance of these idioms in English speech in areas such as news and political discourse (and how "Rituals, traditions, customs are very closely connected with language and form part and parcel of the linguacultural 'realia'") occurs.
Moola Venkata Rangaiah, Indian film producer; Moola Narayana Swamy (born 1950), Indian film producer and entrepreneur; The Fabulous Moolah (1923–2007), ring name of professional wrestler Lillian Ellison
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
It requires regular maintenance, such as raking and patching, to keep it functional and safe. [271] The name golf is not an acronym for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden". [272] [273] It may have come from the Dutch word kolf or kolve, meaning "club", [273] or from the Scottish word goulf or gowf meaning "to strike or cuff". [272]
In the past the term also described those players watching and critiquing the game from the bank, and an obsolete meaning, spelt "banckers", referred to skilful bowlers who lured unsuspecting amateurs to play them for money or other prizes [1] In Australia, the origin of the name may also stem from a sponsorship of a bank who provided prizes or ...
Ballpark, in the ballpark, ballpark figure, and out of the ballpark — "Ballpark" has been used to mean a broad area of approximation or similarity, or a range within which comparison is possible; this usage the Oxford English Dictionary dates to 1960. Another meaning, "sphere of activity or influence", is cited in 1963. "In the (right ...
Old English is essentially a distinct language from Modern English and is virtually impossible for 21st-century unstudied English-speakers to understand. Its grammar was similar to that of modern German: nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs had many more inflectional endings and forms , and word order was much freer than in Modern English.
In particular, raking simas were often decorated with floral motifs or other patterns. Early simas feature tubular or half-cylindrical spouts, but by the middle of the 6th century BC these were mostly replaced with spouts in the shape of animal heads.