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pinch-hit
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  • Can't I have a pinch hitter to take me home?†  (source)
  • "Now, honey," my mother said, and I could tell by the way her voice was moving around that she had probably gone to put her arms around Ashley, pinch hitting for Lewis.†  (source)
    pinch hitting = baseball:  when someone is batting in place of another player
  • He was rarely in charge of her training—that was usually Maryse, Kadir, or various other members of the New York Conclave pinch-hitting until a replacement for the Institute's previous tutor, Hodge, could be found—but when he was, he took it very seriously.†  (source)
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  • I need you to pinch-hit for us.†  (source)
    pinch-hit = baseball:  to bat in place of another player
  • He was not a good baseball player, but he did have a very small strike zone and as a consequence he was often used as a pinch hitter— not because he ever hit the ball with any authority (in fact, he was instructed never to swing at the ball), but because he could be relied upon to earn a walk, a base on balls.†  (source)
    pinch hitter = baseball:  someone who bats in place of another player
  • It's like pinch-hitting for Albert Pujols.†  (source)
    pinch-hitting = baseball:  when someone is batting in place of another player
  • Francisco Aguilar pinch hit for Mario Ontiveros, who as a pinch runner had replaced Ricardo.†  (source)
    pinch hit = baseball:  to bat in place of another player
  • The midget that pinch-hits.†  (source)
    pinch-hits = baseball:  when someone bats in place of another player
  • Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your lifethat the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.†  (source)
    pinch-hitter = baseball:  someone who bats in place of another player
  • If your friend Klein, whom I don't trust too much, will pinch-hit for you here a couple of afternoons, you can go and have an excursion.†  (source)
    pinch-hit = baseball:  to bat in place of another player
  • I know that Gramps can't be that late-inning pinch hitter I'd hoped for.†  (source)
    pinch hitter = baseball:  someone who bats in place of another player
  • He's only supposed to be pinch-hitting for her, but he sits in her office and we all know that that's the new Operating Vice-President.†  (source)
    pinch-hitting = baseball:  when someone is batting in place of another player
  • Billy Benzberg went to the plate to pinch-hit.†  (source)
    pinch-hit = baseball:  to bat in place of another player
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