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SheltieBites Posted 14 years ago
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Pick Up the team

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/18/SPJL1FU27L.DTL

"There is Big Roy and there is Little Roy on the Phillies' pitching staff, and they didn't switch inseams in the National League Championship Series, but it was the little guy who picked up the team and put it back on its feet Sunday night."

What is "picked up the team"?
  

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com/dictionary/pick%20up I'd say it's definition 6a: revive Of course it's a play on definition 1a. CJ

— CalifJim

  • com/dictionary/pick%20up I'd say it's definition 6a: revive Of course it's a play on definition 1a.
  • CJ
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pick%20up

I'd say it's definition 6a: revive

Of course it's a play on definition 1a.

CJ
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Is it informal or slangy? I couldn't find that sense in other (online) dictionaries.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7918495/Grace-Robertson-interview-with-the-1950s-photojournalist.html

"Not long after, Robertson picked up the courage to speak to her father about her new-found ambition."
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SheltieBitesIs it informal or slangy? I couldn't find that sense in other (online) dictionaries.
Informal. It's not slang.

CJ
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SheltieBites"Not long after, Robertson picked up the courage to speak to her father about her new-found ambition."Should "picked up the courage" be read as "acquired the courage" or "increased/revived the courage to a sufficient amount"?
It sounds more like "acquired" to me.

CJ
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