left field
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3.6
- noun
- /lɛft fiːld/
:
jardín izquierdo
- The next hitter stroked a line drive to deep left field, where Lou Brock was playing.
- left field line
- left-field bleachers
- ball to left field
Maybe I'm crazy, John, but it seems like making no money as a slave picking cotton was it was not as good as playing left field for the Yankees.
- Maybe I'm crazy, John, but it seems like making no money as a slave picking cotton was it was not as good as playing left field for the Yankees.
- So they put him out in the field and and in his contract later with the Yankees, he only played the non sun Field right field and Yankee Stadium left field in a lot of places.
- Like, she would come to the baseball games and she would fucking scream, hit it or we're leaving from her fucking Astro van in left field.
Examples
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It's a line drive to left field.
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Fly ball, deep left field.
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If we could just get him to hit it to left field.
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And hits one to deep left field!
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Here is a swing and a drive toward left field and deep.
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There's a high drive, left field, well hit!
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It is a long drive deep left field.
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I play left field.
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Alicea puts it in play, a looper to left field for a base hit.
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The ball sailed into left field where the outfielder sprinted to make a catch.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'unexpected or surprising' is not derivable from the literal constituents 'left' and 'field' (which denote a location, originally a baseball position). This is an idiomatic/colloquial use (often as 'out of left field') whose metaphorical extension is language-specific and would not be predictable to a B1 learner who only knows the component words.
Etymology
Left field is the area of a baseball outfield to the left of home plate, and it also names the player who stands there.