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Swing for the fences

Posted by Bob on February 07, 2006

In Reply to: Swing for the fences posted by siliq on February 07, 2006

: swing for the fences

The origin is baseball. (Any equivalent for cricket?) It means to try with maximumeffort to hit the ball as far as possible, often leading to wild misses. High risk high reward behavior.

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