[Ads-l] "take one for the team"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I don't. I'd think a brutal block in football would be more likely.

JL

On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 5:24 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Is there any evidence that it could have originated as a comment by hit
> batsmen in baseball, which is my guess?
>
> > On Mar 24, 2024, at 4:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Now a former RNC Chair, Ronna McDaniel has joined NBC News as a "news
> > analyst," saying she only supported false claims of a stolen election for
> > three years because "sometimes you have to take one for the team."
> >
> > 1972 _Houston Post_ (May 19) 7B: I suggested to Channel 13's Ken Johnson
> > that they "take one for the team" by putting Cavett on earlier, but he
> > wasn't familiar with the expression.
> >
> > The phrase seems to have taken off only in the 1980s.
> >
> > JL
> >
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> truth."
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