10 Common English Baseball Idioms
1. Hit a home run: to succeed at something
- EX: I think I really hit a home run on my math test yesterday.
2. A ball park figure: an estimate or guess
- EX: How many people were at the concert? Give me a ball park figure.
- EX: He struck out on his graduate school applications. So he’ll try again next year.
that’s unpleasant to deal with
- EX: She really threw me a curve ball when she told me last minute that she couldn’t drive me home.
- EX: I have to go to an appointment, but let’s touch base tomorrow.
6. On the ball: attentive and knowledgeable.
- EX: Daniel is really on the ball today. He hasn’t made any mistakes.
- EX: The tenants are playing hardball with their landlord, holding back on payments they owe until the heating issue is fixed.
- EX: The company president stepped up to the plate and reimbursed the workers for the accounting mismanagement.
- EX: Out of left field he just announced he was making a career change.
- EX: I could tell they liked each other right off the bat.
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