英语词汇older than baseball的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	older than baseball
词源	older than baseball. An American expression meaning very, very old, as indeed baseball is, especially if one traces it back to the British bat-and-ball game of rounders, which is ancient in origin. Old also figures in baseball’s most famous song, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: “For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out, at the old ball game.”
随便看	put in one-s two cents’ worth put it all in the first paragraph put lay one-s finger upon put nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear put one-s best foot forward put one-s foot in one-s mouth put one-s oar in another-s boat put on nothing but the radio put on the buskin put on the dog put on the gloves put on the spot putt put that in your pipe and smoke it put the cart before the horse put the john d to her put the kibosh on put the pedal to the metal put the toothpaste back in the tube put through the mill put to the pale put up on a pedestal put up your dukes put your foot in it put your shoulder to the wheel

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