| 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.” |
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