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- What is the meaning of bunt? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A deliberate and well-aimed bunt ball in cricket may go over the boundary for 4 runs before a fielder can reach it The cricket term for a "gentle tap," played to "steal" a run while the fielding side is running towards the wicket to retrieve the ball, is "nudging the ball" or "playing the ball with soft hands" (i e holding the bat relatively
- What is the origin of bunfight, and how has the term evolved?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a bun-fight as: a jocular expression for a tea-party The OED gives a single quote, from 1928, which uses the words wayzgoose and Eisteddfod and is thus not very helpful, even after one looks up those words
- Why is c*nt so much more derogatory in the US than the UK?
Good question I hear it in British films used very casually, and the Aussies seem to use it the way the Brits use mates — or at least in the same context
- What is the origin of giving [it] the old college try?
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- idioms - Origin of being caught flat-footed - English Language . . .
Google Books matches for 'caught flat-footed' One early usage of flat-footed in the "caught by surprise" sense of the term explicitly contrasts that state with being "on one's toes," indicating that flat-footed as "unprepared" in the sporting sense of the word began as a literal description of a player standing flat on his feet instead of having his weight forward on his toes, ready to run
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