It's a baseball reference. It could be literal - hit a home run in the baseball game you are going to play in. It could be a metaphor - do very, very well in whatever it is you're doing.

subtext problem by converting it to, well, plain ol' text. Very easy to do in Word. Highlight the scene, and then In the pull down menu, it's convert / subtext to text. I know, it's one of the best features in Word. I also sprung the

The Lincolnshire Lay Subsidy of 1334 includes one Everard le Wikked living in Stamford (Bredecroft). Cool name, huh? My ... OE Inca, a wizard. But I wonder what nuances the word carried in the C14th. Anyone got an OED handy? Here's some of the

I've read somewhere that "drama" means internal conflict while"action" means external conflict. I realize nothing is this clear cut, thataction protagonists often have internal problems also, but it seems like a fairly good

I recall hearing a story in the 5th grade about a boy who tried to get a stubborn donkey to pull his cart. His solution was to use a stick with a carrot dangling at the end. This was held in front of the donkey, just out of reach. I have always

Canopus, Your msg was forwarded by a printing/XMTL-CD/website service I am talking to. To my knowledge, there is not a "modern" interpretation of the Rhetoric many translations, commentaries, oblique references to (and misinformation

Charlie, I'm sorry to have to say that the references you have are worthless. Don't trust them any longer. That's an unnecessary error that betrays total ignorance about English grammar. Not *the* most distinguishing thing, but

I've just read of the death of Robert Burchfield, editor of the Oxford English Dictionaries, at the age of 81. I've recently developed a fondness for Burchfield, as the last of the dinosaur British arbiters (the baton, to mix metaphors,

Alex Hunsley filted: Anyone have any idea about the origins of the phrase "What's on the other side?" with regards to television channels? ... the TV was compared to a record, which could be turned over or have something different on

And when it clearly *doesn't* (being imaginary) what do you imagine is being implied? It's not imaginary, it's a metaphor. The real Great Wall of China would make crummy barrier for information it's easy ... never heard to the term