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A double whammy idiom of American English wherein you have to understand baseball to perceive the meaning. Do Europeans have idioms regarding soccer?

I feel like UK (and Indian, Australian, NZ, Pakistani...) English must have idioms concerning Cricket.

In Ireland kissing was called `scoring` ..

"Did you score ?"

Looking back it, seems really strange.

That expression is also used in the US. I don't think it is soccer specific, the objective of almost every game is scoring.

"[Scoring] an own goal" comes to mind, and I think "hat trick" comes from football too. Italian has a few more as wlel.

Huh, I wonder if it varies regionally? Or maybe by generation? Millennial here, when I was using this system Second Base was fingering, handjobs, etc., and Third Base was oral.