go to bat for

争取支持为其辩护

go to bat for 的定义

  1. Take the side of, support, defend. For example, Dad will always go to bat for his kids. This term originated in baseball, where it means simply substituting for another batter, but it is the idea of helping one's team in this way that has been transferred to more general use. [Slang; early 1900s]

go to bat for 近义词

v. 动词 verb

show support for

更多go to bat for例句

  1. Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. Luckily enough I have this dedicated flat that is just along from my house that I go to every day.
  4. The other songs go in to lesser percentages of “me” as you move along.
  5. At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.
  6. Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
  7. All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
  8. When the women came, he was preparing to go to the west side for his daily visit with Mrs. Pruitt.
  9. Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
  10. He desired his secretary to go to the devil, but, thinking better of it, he recalled him as he reached the door.