Metaphors v, We use sports terms all the time
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That last quote, under the Sticky Wicket header, was from Australia, a little far from New York. The writer Victor Mather writes, almost as an apology for straying so far afield:
“Cricket is the U.K.’s baseball,” when it comes to the lexicon, Ms. Martin said. It’s beyond our purview to get into British English too deeply here; there are British alternatives for many terms in American sports.
I don’t know, however, that any American can suggest a baseball term or phrase as beautiful as the British cricketer’s triple pun:
Over and out.
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