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bat one thousand
bat one thousand
Have a perfect record, as in In meeting deadlines, she's batting one thousand. The term comes from baseball statistics, where it signifies getting a hit for every turn at bat. It was transferred to other activities in the 1920s.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| OĽGa | | - | Slovak |
| Khasan | | - | Chechen, Ossetian, Circassian, Ingush, Tatar, Bashkir |
| Rajnish | | - | Indian, Hindi |
| Rut | | ROOT (Spanish) | Spanish, Icelandic, Swedish, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew |
| Karen (2) | | - | Armenian |
| Hovhannes | | - | Armenian |