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SheltieBites Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Pick Up

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/james-lawton-true-test-of-messis-greatness-will-only-come-at-world-cup-6279532.html

"Most memorable, of course, were the individual feats of brilliance which destroyed England and Belgium and then unlocked the door of a superb German defence in the final. Never before – or since, as it happens – had an individual player picked up an entire team and carried them over the finish line of the greatest race in the world."

What is "picked up an entire team"?
  

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Here is seems to mean 'encouraged, infused with power and enthusiasm'.

  • Here is seems to mean 'encouraged, infused with power and enthusiasm'.
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Here is seems to mean 'encouraged, infused with power and enthusiasm'.
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Is the usage of "pick up" in the first post slangy?

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