take the count
Example Sentences
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One strikeout later, Trout came up, worked a tough at-bat against Hernandez to take the count full, then obliterated the next offering and sent it soaring over the wall in left-center.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2012
Kelley fell behind 3-1 to Upton, rallied to take the count full, then threw his trademark slider down and away.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2012
Did he whiff to take the count even?
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2011
But the Old Globe's The Taming of the Shrew picks up enormously by having Kate take the count within 45 minutes, becomes, indeed, an exuberant comic-strip courtship.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes I take the count in the first round; but when I feel like having a good time during the week or want some new rags I come up again for more punishment.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
