In Cricketese?

[techumseh]

I think that "A bit of a sticky wicket, old chap" is pretty much the quintessential phrase you're looking for, Boco, old bean. Anything else is just not cricket!

[Case]

Originally posted by Boco
Thank you, gentlemen.

How about phrases for "cheating" or "odd"?

"Shane Warne"

[fairline]

That's what his ex-missus says anyway

[Boco]

Originally posted by Boco
Any phrase for a .... football (soccer) term akin to 'a deer (or goalie) frozen in the headlights' of an oncoming car ...?

Looks like Game.txt contains enough Cricketeese, now. Thanks! Judging from the historical context (i.e. dribbling soccer balls on the opening day of the Somme), I'd like to drop in a football term as well.

[AGRICOLA]

I'd like to drop in a football term as well.

Oh yesss! Please do change the thread to comprehensible English.

If you want football, how about something like this description of Market Garden?
"Monty scrambled from the pocket and heaved a lame duck Hail Mary to Arnhem who was running a post. The SS intercepted."

Originally posted by Boco
How about phrases for "cheating" or "odd"?

Originally posted by Case
"Shane Warne"

I'm shocked that cricket has its own answer to baseball's Pete Rose.

BTW, WTF is a leg spin, or is it spin leg, bowler? I thought that a bowler was what one wore in the City.


EDIT: To all for whom Kick the Dane's Head is a beautiful game: SS = strong safety

[rjmatsleepers]

Originally posted by AGRICOLA

If you want football, how about something like this description of Market Garden?
"Monty scrambled from the pocket and heaved a lame duck Hail Mary to Arnhem who was running a post. The SS intercepted."

I don't think he meant gridiron, or aussie rules or even rugby - I think he was talking about the beautiful game.

Originally posted by AGRICOLA
BTW, WTF is a leg spin, or is it spin leg, bowler? I thought that a bowler was what one wore in the City.

As well as the two sides playing the game, their are two sides of the pitch - the off side and the on side which is called the leg side. If the spin on a ball makes it move to the off side, it is called a leg break. Actual broken legs are usually prevented by wearing pads. BTW the off side is rather different from offside in the beautiful game.

I hope that's clear now.

RJM at Sleeper's

[fairline]

Originally posted by AGRICOLA

Oh yesss! Please do change the thread to comprehensible English.

If you want football, how about something like this description of Market Garden?
"Monty scrambled from the pocket and heaved a lame duck Hail Mary to Arnhem who was running a post. The SS intercepted."

Are those rounders terms?

BTW, WTF is a leg spin, or is it spin leg, bowler? I thought that a bowler was what one wore in the City.

To further explain this in colonial rounders terms, the bowler is the pitcher, a spin bowler is a specialist pitcher who bowls (pitches) slowly and puts spin on the ball in a variety of ways. When the ball pitches (hits the ground) it moves dramatically differently to its original direction of travel. Off-side (in cricket, not rugby or football) is the side the batsman is facing, leg-side is behind the batsman (he's side-on to the bowler). A leg-spinner bowls 'leg-breaks' or 'leg-spin', which is a ball that moves right-to-left from the bowlers point of view after pitching. A 'googly' is a ball from a leg-spinner that pitches the opposite way to decieve the batsman. I won't confuse you with 'flippers' or 'sliders' which are deliveries (pitches) that the genius spinner Shane Warne has as his stock in trade. Clear as mud? Good.

EDIT: To all for whom Kick the Dane's Head is a beautiful game: SS = strong safety

3/4 or more of the World can't be wrong. Football (not 'soccer'! ) is the beatiful game. You colonials stick to rounders and dressing up like you're about to ride a motorcycle and hitting each other.

[fairline]

Originally posted by Boco

Looks like Game.txt contains enough Cricketeese, now. Thanks! Judging from the historical context (i.e. dribbling soccer balls on the opening day of the Somme), I'd like to drop in a football term as well.

Any phrase for a .... football (soccer) term akin to 'a deer (or goalie) frozen in the headlights' of an oncoming car ...?

Not that I can think of

When you 'nutmeg' a player you fool him and kick the ball between his legs. Not what you're after really.

BTW, only the officer-class would have called football 'soccer'; it was an upper-class-twit abbreviation of 'Association football' in the same way that 'rugger' was a chinless-wonder abbreviation for rugby football. Working class squaddies would have said 'football'.

[Boco]

Who says footie?

I'd like to use some overly jingoistic soccer analogy for the appearance of tanks. Something bragging about how they're going to plough through shocked Turk lines. Historically, they were misused and had little impact. The Turks disabled most fairly easily with artillery.