[Ads-l] Can you snap your own go streak?

[Dan Goncharoff]

Thanks. Still sounds wrong to me. The use referring to Gehrig is saved by
his own agency in deciding to stop his games streak.

You don't "stop" your own winning streak, you just lose. The streak
snapped, but you didn't snap it, your opponent did.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 5:03 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> >
> > Seen in an email from the NYTimes:
> >
> > "World No. 1 Iga Świątek snapped her 37-match win streak with a
> third-round
> > loss at Wimbledon on Saturday."
> >
> > Can you snap your own good streak?
> >
> > You can snap your bad streak. You can snap someone else's streak. I have
> > never seen "snap" used for one's own good streak. (I would use "break" or
> > "ended".)
>
> In 1934 “he snapped his streak” was used to refer to a “good” streak
> although some questioned whether the streak was truly “good”.
>
> Date: July 11, 1934
> Newspaper: El Paso Herald-Post
> Newspaper Location: El Paso, Texas
> Article: As I Was Saying
> Author: Bob Ingram
> Quote Page 8, Column 1
> Database: Newspapers.com
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> Lou Gehrig, New York Yankee first baseman, is not listening to advice
> of his friends that he would be better off if he snapped his streak of
> consecutive games.
> Since June 1, 1925, Lou has not missed an American league game played
> by the New York Yanks.
> [End excerpt]
>
> In 1948 “he snapped his winning streak” appeared.
>
> [End excerpt]
> Date: August 04, 1948
> Newspaper: The Boston Globe
> Newspaper Location: Boston, Massachusetts
> Article: Allston Student Wins Globe Grandstand Managers Test
> Quote Page 1, Column 6
> Database: Newspapers.com
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> But here are the correct answers, so you fans can check over your own
> score sheets:
> 1. Bobby Doerr played 30 games and had 182 chances before he snapped
> his winning streak.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
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