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First off the bat

Posted: July 30, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |Leave a comment

Chris Hayes from MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes utters this one at the 1:40 mark:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chris-hayes/id1314170606?i=1000530357511

This is a mashup of “first off” (first of all, before anything else) and “right off the bat” (immediately). “Right off the bat” seems to be an idiom that is mixed quite often. See, for example, https://malaphors.com/2013/05/23/right-from-the-bat/ and https://malaphors.com/2012/10/27/right-out-of-the-bat/. The mind is going batty with these malaphors. A big thanks to Frank King for hearing this one and sending it in!

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