All 3 Uses of
pinch-hit
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect?†
Chpt 2.2 *pinch-hit = baseball: to bat 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.†
Chpt 2.7pinch-hitting = baseball: when someone is batting 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.†
Chpt 3.7pinch-hitter = baseball: someone who bats in place of another player
Definitions:
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(1)
(pinch-hit) baseball: to bat in place of another player
or generally: to fill in for anotherThe word "pinch" is used as in the expression, "In a pinch (desperate situation)..." -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus