单词 | to hit on the meat |
释义 | > as lemmasto hit on (also with) the meat 12. Cricket and Golf. The centre of a cricket bat, or of the head of a golf club, etc. Esp. in to hit on (also with) the meat. Occasionally: the centre of a racket. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > instrument for hitting ball > parts of face1816 drive1867 meat1909 sweet spot1976 1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 4/2 If you did not take the gutta-percha ball right in the middle of the club (right ‘on the meat’, according to the modern abominable phrase) it declined to go at all. 1925 Country Life 11 July 48/2 It is easy to drive a lob bowler..on the ‘meat’ or drive of the bat. 1959 R. Fuller Ruined Boys ii. ix. 143 Wilkes hit the second ball of the over with the meat of the bat. 1963 Times 28 Jan. 4/3 It was apparent that here was the severest and purest hitter in the game at the pinnacle of his form, tuning up as though the ball were tied to the meat of his racket by a string of elastic. 1975 D. Langdon How to talk Golf 77 Topping, the act of striking the ball on the head instead of in the middle, or ‘meat’. 1999 Times 28 May 27/4 From now on, until I could learn to slam that ball on the meat, all my work would be signed from the sixth bunker at Addington. < as lemmas |
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