I get to swing for the fences
Ah, sports metaphors. I consider it to be lower on the language scale than excessive swearing, in terms of limited vocabulary. At least swearing can be used to humorous or vaguely poetic effect.
Ah, sports metaphors. I consider it to be lower on the language scale than excessive swearing, in terms of limited vocabulary. At least swearing can be used to humorous or vaguely poetic effect.
Ah, climbing metaphors ;-)
scale: "to climb," late 14c., from L. scala, from scandere "to climb". This is also the source (perhaps via It. scala) of the noun in the musical sense.
I admit, I'm stretching a point here, but when in Rome..
How does "swing for the fences" not imply baseball?
I was stretching it, sure, but responding to someone picking a hole in someone's legitimate usage of a metaphor seemed like a great time to be a little jocular!
If I were to fault that metaphor for anything it would be that it has become cliche at this point.
2) It's confusing to non-native speakers.
3) It's confusing to native speakers, too.
4) Baseball has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
5) It reeks of inaccurate, droning marketing-speak.
6) It cheapens the industry to resort of sports-derived metaphors.
I'm glad he went the whole nine yards with his explanation; too bad you swallowed that one phrase hook, line, and sinker.
So he used the term correctly? What does the term even mean? Swing for the fences? So he gets to 'swing' really hard? Or does that mean he gets 'thrown' 'balls' 'softly' enough that he's able to finally 'hit' them 'far'? Is he taking steroids, or their computational or business equivalent?