'Stepping up to the plate'

[bhaexpress]

The English phrase is ... stepping up to the oche.

I will give a pound to REMF for every use of this phrase that anyone can find in the US media.

They think Oche is a game played on ice.

 

[larus]

This thread won't be over until we hear the fat lady singing.

 

[Gritt23]

f*** me, if I had a pound for every time I've heard that phrase this weekend.

A very apt weekend for the expression seeing as the Boston Red Sox really did "step up to the plate" in the most specatular style on Sunday.

 

[Meola At Home]

There are some some thought grenades on this thread, must be all the blue sky thinkers...

 

[smudge]

We need to draw a line under this thread & move on.

(I really f***ing HATE that phrase!!!)

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

You mean you are letting us go?

 

[ac gull]

need to snorkle in the same think tank on this one

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Shall we pee in the same bathwater?

 

[seagully]

Isn't "toe the line" something to do with the red line in the House Of Commons, about not drawing your sword and "overstepping the mark?"

indeed it is

 

[Lord Bracknell]

does this count?

http://sewa-darts.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2634

It looked promising ... until I found the bit about the "Professional Darters Of North America".

DARTERS? What the hell sort of word is that?

 

[RexCathedra]

A very apt weekend for the expression seeing as the Boston Red Sox really did "step up to the plate" in the most specatular style on Sunday.


There's a 'knocked them for four' (or seven) joke in there someplace, but I'm too tired to find it.

Brightonalace::Red Sox:Yankees

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Football is all about tempo.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Now, I am sure that "Stepping up to the Plate" originated as a baseball term... referring to meeting a seemingly impossible challenge and then performing heroics on the field of play.

But for me, this phrase now conjures up a very different image, one that is now impossible to dislodge.

A typically supersized American, approaching a restaurant table that's piled high with triple cheese and bacon burgers, pizzas, hotdogs, fries, ice cream and milk shakes.

Stepping up to the Plate... and scoffing the lot in one... to a chorus of cheers and whoops from an admiring audience of waddling lardbuckets.

 

[Gritt23]

Now, I am sure that "Stepping up to the Plate" originated as a baseball term... referring to meeting a seemingly impossible challenge and then performing heroics on the field of play.

But for me, this phrase now conjures up a very different image, one that is now impossible to dislodge.

A typically supersized American, approaching a restaurant table that's piled high with triple cheese and bacon burgers, pizzas, hotdogs, fries, ice cream and milk shakes.

Stepping up to the Plate... and scoffing the lot in one... to a chorus of cheers and whoops from an admiring audience of waddling lardbuckets.

That's very good! And will be the image I shall conjure up whenever I hear that phrase now.

 

[Rambo]

We need to draw a line under this thread & move on.

(I really f***ing HATE that phrase!!!)

Also, we need to draw a line in the sand.

Urghhhhh