inside baseball

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:30 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

> Michael Cohen on the belief by some liberals that Obama is missing an
> opportunity to educate voters how the federal budget works (sorry,
> no link):
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> That’s much too complicated and inside baseball for the ordinary
>> low-information voter.
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> Only UD and Wiktionary have entries for "inside baseball" in this
> metaphor.
> Wordnik has some good additional quotes, with sources.

I recently finished editing a very extensive entry for OED for this
term; it should be appearing in the near future.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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