throw a curve
Example Sentences
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Surely the Fed won't throw a curve ball later on Wednesday, will it?
From Reuters • May 2, 2023
Still, the Oscars can always throw a curve or two if the mood strikes it.
From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2020
Leavy invited Koufax to her son’s bar mitzvah in Washington, and she showed me a photo of the legendary left-hander demonstrating how to throw a curve to a gaggle of 13-year-old boys.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2019
"I tell parents, when your kid can shave, he can throw a curve ball," he says of the dangers.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2015
And there was a pitcher there who looked like the pictures of Edgar Allan Poe, and he could throw a curve clear around the batter right into the catcher's hand.
From Mitch Miller by Sloan, John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
