2024-11-18
53 分钟You're listening to Away With Words to show about language and how we use it.
I'm Grant Barrett.
And I'm Martha Barnett.
Hey, Grant,
thank you so much for sending me that collection of slang from the sporting news in the 19...
What was it, 1933?
Oh, yeah, the baseball slang from 1933.
I knew you'd love that.
It's just the thing we like to sit back and forth, isn't it?
I know.
Baseball is just this endless repository of fantastic slang.
It's so poetic.
I love, for example, fishing trip.
which is swinging at a bad ball.
He took a fish and tripped.
Yeah, you're like, that's totally what they're doing.
They're just like throwing the bat out there,
just kind of trying to hit any junk that comes their way.
Right.
And sometimes they end up with a line drive to the catcher.