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With baseball being all the rage – another baseball idiom
First base at baseball, pic: clubelephant.org As I write this the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers are playing their 5th World Series game and all of San Francisco and the Bay Area are going...
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In the ballpark
If it is in the ballpark, it is about right. Pic: mychinaconnection.com If somebody asks you whether their proposal or estimate was “in the ballpark” or you are requested to make a “ballpark” estimate...
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Playing hardball
Ready to play hardball? pic: © Jcyoung | Dreamstime.com Let’s hope you don’t meet too many people ready to play hardball as it can get a tad unpleasant dealing with such fellows. Somebody who plays...
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Top of the Hour
The news is on the top of the hour. Pic: www2.tv-ark.org.uk “We have the news for you on the top of the hour” – when I first heard that sentence a few years back, or one very much like it, I did a bit...
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Upper Hand
This phrase is read this morning in the newspaper in connection with the current unrests in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. It is an interesting one, actually quite obvious what it means in the context of...
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