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- be batting a thousand
be batting a thousand
be batting a thousand
(American) to do something extremely well and better than you had hoped to do it Gloria felt she was batting a thousand. She'd got everything she asked for when she saw her boss.
See be on a sticky wicket
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Fedot | | fye-DOT, fee-DOT | Russian |
| Eliphelet | | i-LIF-ə-let (English), ee-LIF-ə-let (English) | Biblical |
| ÁDhamh | | - | Irish |
| Yeong-Hwan | | yung-hwahn | Korean |
| Guus | | KHUYS | Dutch |
| Marilyn | | MER-ə-lin, MER-lin, MAR-ə-lin, MAR-lin | English |