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TheLizardKing89 t1_ity0rli wrote

Reply to comment by Aussiechimp in Ireland defeat England in rain-shortened match at the T20 World Cup by jachiche

Baseball’s terminology is so baked into American English that tons of word and phrases people use everyday are derived from baseball and people don’t even know it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_English-language_idioms_derived_from_baseball

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Risc_Terilia t1_ityhxm5 wrote

There's a few that I think even Americans use that are from cricket to. Do Americans say they're stumped by something? That's from cricket.

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tezza55 t1_ityj6kc wrote

Plenty more than that. To be on the back foot or to Catch someone out, i think is most commonly used in english that most people would not realise originates from Cricket

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