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You Can Run but You Can't Hide: Sporting Sayings and Their Meanings
You Can Run but You Can't Hide Sporting Sayings and Their Meanings Author:Grange Books When the ball is in your court and you're pulling no punches, it's time to play your hand and carry all before you as you go on to win at a canter. Should you, however, overshoot the mark or feel tempted to throw in the towel when you're on the ropes, you'll be saved from coming to blows by this entertaining and informative A-Z of the origins an... more »d history of hundreds of sporting and gaming terms that are now part of our common language.
From aces and also rans to rainchecks and the whole shoot, You Can Run but you Can't Hide explores the way in which words and phrases from sports and games have passed into the wider vocabulary of everyday speech.
To avoid being snookered or drawing a blank, stay on the ball as you discover the sporting ancestry that lies behind so much of what we read, write and say.
First published in 2000 as Stumped on a Sticky Wicket.« less