Timeline for idiom for saying "by virtue of their $nothing [anticlimax]"?
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Aug 31, 2020 at 7:32 | comment | added | rjpond | "Mr Alan Greenspan - off his own bat, without even calling a meeting of the Federal Reserve, announced he was cutting the prime interest rate by one half per cent." ( bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/57qFQXhX276XlLK17VcTZln/… ) | |
Aug 31, 2020 at 0:15 | comment | added | BadZen | "off his own bat"? Can you provide a usage from a corpus or text? | |
Aug 30, 2020 at 16:00 | history | answered | rjpond | CC BY-SA 4.0 |