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单词 to sit on the pine
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to sit on (also ride, warm, etc.) the pine
8. In a team sport: the substitutes' bench. Usually in phrases such as to sit on (also ride, warm, etc.) the pine: to be a substitute.
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1936 Port Arthur (Texas) News 20 Feb. 12/1 While his players are riding the pine complaining of charley horses, kicking about the heat,..Terry is out there on the job.
1977 Burlington (N. Carolina) Times-News 20 July 1 c Our heavy artillery was on the pine... Look at Jim Rice. He's second to me in home runs but he was sitting on the pine. Craig Nettles has 20 home runs and he was on the pine.
1992 Sports Illustr. 9 Nov. 100/2 They were a good team without him last season, when they won 15 of their last 16 games, all with Bird, and his bad back, on the pine.
1997 Ice Hockey News Rev. 22 Feb. 7/1 From being an integral part of the Straubing Tigers on-ice contingent to riding the pine was not Paddy Scott's idea of a good way to spend the rest of the season.
2004 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 29 Aug. 56 The prearranged rotations also mean that when the game is up for grabs the best players are often warming the pine.
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