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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Slang off it, put down to
We've had six weeks of non-stop Twenty20 cricket on the field - not to speak of the WWE style slanging off it - and at the end of it, with the four supposedly 'best' teams qualifying for the knock-out stages, the mood seems unbearably dull.
The semi-finals being dull can be put down to one team playing better cricket, or seizing the big moments better, but when you throw two teams together - each of whom has just lost their respective semi-finals together - then the result would be expected to be dull.
Consider the mindsets of the Bangalore and Deccan sides. Bangalore had endured an up-and-down qualifying phase, where only towards the end did they get a semblance of a foot-hold in the semi-finals and that due to their Net Run Rate.
Please explain to me the emboldened parts.
Source : http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/25566/The-futility-of-a-third-place-match
Though I guess "put down to" means "depends on".
The semi-finals being dull can be put down to one team playing better cricket, or seizing the big moments better, but when you throw two teams together - each of whom has just lost their respective semi-finals together - then the result would be expected to be dull.
Consider the mindsets of the Bangalore and Deccan sides. Bangalore had endured an up-and-down qualifying phase, where only towards the end did they get a semblance of a foot-hold in the semi-finals and that due to their Net Run Rate.
Please explain to me the emboldened parts.
Source : http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/25566/The-futility-of-a-third-place-match
Though I guess "put down to" means "depends on".
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e. not on the actual playing arena). "put down to" = attributed to.
- e.
- not on the actual playing arena).
- "put down to" = attributed to.
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"slanging off it" = arguments ("slanging") that have taken place off the field (i.e. not on the actual playing arena).
"put down to" = attributed to.
"put down to" = attributed to.
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