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two strikes against
Idioms and Phrases
Strong factors opposing, as in There are two strikes against her possibility of a promotion . This term comes from baseball, where a batter is allowed three strikes at a fairly pitched ball before being called out; thus, a batter with two strikes has but one more chance to hit a fair ball. The figurative use dates from the early 1900s.Example Sentences
In the first inning, May had two strikes against Riley before throwing a sweeper up and over the plate.
The remaining work and the fact that the home is part of a community devastated by the Palisades fire might seem like two strikes against it.
And I don’t think it was just fooling people; Trump ran against a Black woman — meaning Harris already had two strikes against her when she came up to bat, but still almost won.
Edward Simmer, the state’s interim public health director, said that if “you are African American in a rural zone, it is like having two strikes against you.”
After starting with a tap-in to level the scores, Vinicius Jr's last two strikes against Dortmund were something special.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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