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

[Laurence Horn]

Aha!  Sometimes us old geezers’ memory comes through, even if we can’t remember where we put our keys or glasses…



> On Mar 24, 2024, at 6:47 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> The benefit of taking one for the team in baseball is clear -- batter goes
> to first base. Not sure what the benefit is if getting hit real hard when
> blocking in football.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2024, 5:36 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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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