| 单词 | to pull a rock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pull a rock g. U.S. Baseball slang. An error. Chiefly in to pull a rock: to make an error. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > fouls or errors balk1845 foul ball1855 block ball1891 interference1927 rock1937 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > make mistake to pull a rock1937 1937 E. M. Rumill in Christian Sci. Monitor 1 Sept. (Weekly Mag.) 13/1 ‘Rocks’ are a menace to both navigation and baseball, for at the Polo Grounds and similar parks they are blunders executed by a slow-thinking player. 1939 E. J. Nichols Hist. Dict. Baseball Terminol. (Ph.D. thesis, Pennsylvania State Coll.) 57 Pull a rock, see ‘boner’. [p. 9: Boner, an error in judgment.] 1951 Birmingham (Alabama) News 31 July 16/3 How does a guy who has been labeled ‘the perfect player’ feel after pulling his first ‘rock’ in a long and brilliant baseball career? 1952 Philadelphia Evening Bull. 4 Oct. 13/2 Who deserved the rap for the ‘rock’ that cost the Yankees yesterday's World Series game? 1969 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 30 Nov. b4/1 Vince Lombardi can pull a rock in picking talent, the same as any other mortal in football. 2003 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 29 June 50 If Gonzalez doesn't pull a rock and get himself picked off between second and third, who knows what else would have happened to the Yankees. < as lemmas |
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