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Vocabulary

To snare a screaming line drive

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00Please have a look at the following sentence and paraphrase it for me, if you will. Thanks so much! 02br
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00Pete Rose can count on his muscles springing into action to snare a screaming line drive because he has built that response into the neurons through hours of practice. 02br
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00(I can understand most of the sentence all right, except for the bit I put into the subject line. It probably has something to do with baseball, which I'm hopeless at.) Thanks again! 0-
  

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0Pete Rose has practiced catching hard-hit baseballs so much that he now relies on his reflexes to do it. 0-

— Mister Micawber

  • 0Pete Rose has practiced catching hard-hit baseballs so much that he now relies on his reflexes to do it.
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0Pete Rose has practiced catching hard-hit baseballs so much that he now relies on his reflexes to do it. 0-
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0 In this case, from what I understand, 'snare' also means to 'catch something', 'to get something'. And 'screaming' also means 'something that stands out'. Therefore, the meaning of 'To snare a screaming line drive' is 'to get an impressing line drive'. 02br
00Sunil Bhasin 0-
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0Hi Sunil, 02br
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00I'm afraid that in baseball parlance, 'screaming' just means fast and hard-hit. I'm not sure whether it is because the ball whistles in flight or because the player screams when it stings his hand. 02br
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0 "To snare" usually refers to catching an animal or a person in a trap. 02br
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00"The snared (or "ensnared") rabbit chewed off its own leg to escape". 0-
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