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> "Dave" wrote in message
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>>>> Dimitri wrote:
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>>>>>> His daughter had some part in the biz. I would imagine she's going to
>>>>>> step up to the plate more so!
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>>>> Where did this expression originate from? >>>>
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>>> step up to the plate
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>>> to take responsibility for doing something.
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>> Thanks for that. As I understand it, it comes from baseball. I can now
>> see how it evolved.
>>
>> Dave
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> Happy to help - idioms are an important part of language and usually
> difficult for the non native speaker to understand.
>
> Dimitri

Like the Britishism, "Spend a penny" which I could never have figured out on
my own, because it was always at least a nickel in the US. They don't have
pay toilets anymore, do they? When did they finish?