The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors: A Compendium of Competitive Words and Idioms

About this book

A gift-worthy playbook of common and unexpected words and idioms that have their roots in sports and games. There are many metaphors we can quickly identify from the realm of sports: covering all the bases (baseball) game plan (football) and par for the course (golf). But the English language is also peppered with the not-so-obvious influence of sports and games such as go-to guy (basketball) and dead ringer (horse racing). Filled with pithy entries on each idiom plus quotes showing how big talkers from President Obama to rapper Ice-T use them this quirky little handbook from former minor league ballplayer and award-winning journalist Josh Chetwynd is sure to be a conversation starter at tailgates cocktail parties and in the boardroom.