English
two for two
In baseball, meeting two out of two attempts at-bat. Specifically, it means the batter has reached base safely two out of two times.
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Origin
From baseball.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lineage
- derivedEnglishbaseball “A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike …”
- partEnglishbase “Something from which other things extend; a foundation.”
- inheritedMiddle Englishbase
- inheritedMiddle Englishbas
- partEnglishball “A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.”
- inheritedMiddle Englishbal
- borrowedMiddle Frenchball
- partEnglishbase “Something from which other things extend; a foundation.”