go to bat for
Example Sentences
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And it isn’t merely the pitcher’s willingness to go to bat for his team and country, all the metrics make his case, too.
From Los Angeles Times
“It was definitely super special, after everything that’s been going around online, to have someone step up like that and really go to bat for us,” forward Alex Carpenter said of Flav’s invitation during a Seattle Torrent news conference on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times
O’Neill, who is set to join the London-based company from Australia’s Woodside Energy WDS -2.65%decrease; red down pointing triangle in April, is a dealmaker who is willing to go to bat for the oil-and-gas business.
Most job seekers don’t have someone like Fife to go to bat for them—not until they get through an initial screening, anyway.
The issue put Redstone and some high-level executives at odds with journalists, who expressed dismay that the company did not appear willing to go to bat for one of the network’s premier brands.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
