go to bat against

go to bat against someone

Fig. to aid someone against someone else. I would be happy to go to bat against Dan. We refused to go to bat against one of our friends.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yefet	-	Biblical Hebrew
RuŽA	ROO-zhah	Croatian, Serbian
Nickerson	['nikəsn]
Tutankhamon	too-tahng-KAH-mən (English)	Ancient Egyptian
'Adalya'	-	Biblical Hebrew
Amir (1)	-	Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Malay, Indonesian