| 单词 | to play softball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play softball Originally North American. to play softball (figurative): to be accommodating, compromise, esp. in politics; cf. to play hardball at hardball n. 2. ΚΠ 1976 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. 39/4 ‘In the big leagues of world leadership, they rarely play softball.’—John B. Connally, calling for Republican leadership of the nation in his address to the Republican National Convention. 1984 Oversight on Boilermakers, 1983: Hearings before U.S. Senate Labor & Human Resources Comm. (98th Congr., 1st. Sess.) 150 I do not think they should play softball with business. I do not think they should play softball with union leaders. 1991 D. Lucie Fashion (rev. ed.) ii. ii, in Fashion, Progress, Hard Feelings, Doing the Business 65 This is my life we're talking about. So I'm not playing softball. 2001 Australian 22 Oct. (Brisbane ed.) 32/3 (headline) Both parties play softball. < as lemmas |
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