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From 'Back to square one' to 'Win one for the Gipper', sports and pastimes loom large in our language. Here's a select list::
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A list of phrases about sports and games
By Gary Martin
Gary Martin is a writer and researcher on the origins of phrases and the creator of the Phrase Finder website. Over the past 26 years more than 700 million of his pages have been downloaded by readers. He is one of the most popular and trusted sources of information on phrases and idioms.
