单词 | spot the ball |
释义 | > as lemmasspot the ball P1. spot the ball: (the name of) a type of game or competition, the object of which is to correctly guess and mark the position of a ball on a photograph of a sports match (often a football match) from which the ball has been removed; also attributive, esp. in spot the ball competition. ΚΠ 1930 Washington Post 27 July (Sports section) m17/3 (heading) ‘Spot the Ball’—a new game calling on luck and skill; test your judgement and win 4 seats to Nats' contests. 1969 Times 19 Sept. 3/4 ‘Spot the ball’ competitions..appear weekly in some 250 British publications. 1992 G. Whannel in D. Strinati & S. Wagg Come on Down? (1995) vii. 181 Games like Spot the Ball grew alongside the football pools in the 1930s. 2011 Private Eye 23 Dec. 8/3 Both series become tedious exercises in ironic hindsight, rather like looking at the solution photo in a Spot the Ball contest before looking at the one that asks you to put in the X. < as lemmas |
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