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Christine Christie Posted 3 years ago
Grammar

To deliver one's pitch

Consider the following sentence:


"My eyes were still bloodshot from my Okavango debauch, and darting all around as I delivered my pitch."


What does 'delivered my pitch' mean?


I looked in the dictionary, but I still don't understand.


Is this a figure of speech, with an association to sport?




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THANK YOU.

  

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Christine Christie What does 'delivered my pitch' mean? There is not enough context to tell, but it seems likely that this pitch is a sales pitch, a speech designed to make people want to buy what you're selling. Christine Christie Is this a figure of speech, with an association to sport?

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  • Christine Christie What does 'delivered my pitch' mean?
  • There is not enough context to tell, but it seems likely that this pitch is a sales pitch, a speech designed to make people want to buy what you're selling.
  • Christine Christie Is this a figure of speech, with an association to sport?
  • All the OED says is "originally slang".
  • The first citation is from 1876 in London, so I have to think it is from cricket, where it denotes the way a bowler wriggles to makes the ball hit the ground a certain way and also the consequent motion of the ball.
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Christine ChristieWhat does 'delivered my pitch' mean?

There is not enough context to tell, but it seems likely that this pitch is a sales pitch, a speech designed to make people want to buy what you're selling.

Christine ChristieIs this a figure of speech, with an association to sport?

All the OED says is "

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