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单词 to pitch it strong
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to pitch it strong
c. transitive. Chiefly British colloquial. to pitch it strong and variants: to speak forcefully; to state a case with feeling or enthusiasm; to exaggerate.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (intransitive)] > other
to take the right-hand file1616
first1635
to speak in capitals?1694
to take the (or a) lead1761
to play first (or second) fiddle1778
to play first violin1780
to be no great (some great, considerable, etc.) shakes1819
to pitch it strong1823
to come out strong1825
violin1895
repeat1923
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase]
to go beyond the moon?c1430
to cast beyond the moon1559
to lay on load?1562
to lay it on with a trowela1616
all (his) geese are swans1621
to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667
to lay it on thick1740
to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778
to come it1796
to make a thing about (also of)1813
to draw with the long-bow1823
to pitch it strong1823
to overegg the pudding1845
to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865
to god it1870
to strong it1964
to stretch it (or things)1965
1823 R. B. Peake Duel i. ii. 11 You pitch it strong, my fine fellow!
1824 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 1st Ser. II. 34 That's pitching it strong, howsumever,..I takes that to be gammon, now.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 7 And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could.
1903 P. G. Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 213 Try him, anyhow. Pitch it fairly warm... Only cat you ever loved, and that sort of thing.
1969 New Scientist 3 July 37/1 Dr Steven Rose..was not pitching it too high when he said that the dangers of uncontrolled technology were as great as those of nuclear warfare.
2004 Scotsman (Nexis) 9 Jan. 29 [The] Conservative front-bench spokesman..likened supermarkets squeezing their suppliers to Stalin's purge of several million peasants, pitching it strong even for a Tory politician.
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