英语词汇right off the bat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	right off the bat
词源	right off the bat. The sound of a baseball hit sharply on the meat of a bat inspired the Americanism right off the bat, mean- ing at once, immediately, very quickly, the first thing. It is first recorded in 1910.
随便看	all men make faults all mouth and no ears all my eye and betty martin all oak and iron bound all-overs all over the ballpark all quiet on the potomac all quiet on the western front all roads lead to rome all she wrote all shook up allspice all-s right with the world all-star game all-s well that ends well all systems go all that glitters is not gold all that meat and no potatoes all the bullet holes in the front of him all the news that-s fit to print all the tea in china all the traffic will bear all the world-s a stage all things are difficult before they are easy all this for a song

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