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home run
[ hohm ruhn ]
noun
- Also called homer. Baseball. a hit that enables a batter, without the aid of a fielding error, to score a run by making a nonstop circuit of the bases. : h.r., hr, HR
- a complete or unqualified success:
trying to hit a home run at the box office.
home run
noun
- baseball a hit that enables the batter to run round all four bases, usually by hitting the ball out of the playing area
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of home run1
Idioms and Phrases
A highly successful achievement; also, doubling one's profits. For example, We scored a home run with that drug stock, buying it at 15 and selling at 30 . This expression originated in the mid-1800s in baseball, where it refers to a pitched ball batted so far that the batter can round all three bases and reach home plate, scoring a run. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
After giving up back-to-back solo home runs in the top of the first inning, Glasnow returned to the mound for the second.
Yet they rank fifth with a .431 slugging percentage because they lead baseball with 43 home runs.
Cypress 13, El Dorado 2: Wyatt Rosales had a home run and Greg Prophet contributed three hits.
He had zero home runs, which matched how many scholarship offers he had.
Anthony Murphy hit three home runs and finished with four hits and six RBIs.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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