Punches the ball to right?
Does anybody help me understand what "punches the ball to right" mean?
I was reading a book "How to get ideas" by Jack Foster. In the second chapter, "Be more like a child," there are the following sentences.
"The adult in you wears a belt and suspenders and looks both ways before crossing the road. The child in you goes barefoot and plays in the street. The adult punches the ball to right. The child swings for the fences."
I can understand that it is good to be like a child to get an idea, but I don't understand this part: The adult punches the ball to right. The child swings for the fences.
Does anyone help me? Thank you!
Top answer
towel slide 182 The adult punches the ball to right. The child swings for the fences. These are baseball references.
- towel slide 182 The adult punches the ball to right.
- The child swings for the fences.
- These are baseball references.
- To punch the ball to right is to hit the ball with your bat so that it goes into right field.
- To swing for the fences is to swing the bat with all your might trying for a home run, trying to hit the ball beyond the far boundary of the field.
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towel slide 182The adult punches the ball to right. The child swings for the fences.
These are baseball references. To punch the ball to right is to hit the ball with your bat so that it goes into right field. To swing for the fences is to swing the bat with all your might trying for a home run, trying to hit the ball beyond the far boundary of the field.
0towel slide 182The child swings for the fences
"swing for the fences" can be used both literally and figuratively as an idiomatic expression. In the given context, it is used figuratively, but the writer has also included "punches the ball to right", which is not very idiomatic, to match the next baseball idiomatic expression so that they make a good pair
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