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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... wits against: see WIT. pitch make a pitch make a bid to obtain a contract or
other benefit. 0 Pitch is used here in the late 19th-century colloquial sense of a
sales pitch. queer someone's pitch: see QUEER. pitched a pitched battle a fierce
fight.
[In trie early 19C queer was an element in many slang terms for shady or criminal
persons, activities etc.] a queer fish see fish. queer (someone's) pitch (in/) to spoil
(someone's) plans; to make it impossible for (someone) to do something: He ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
[In the early 19C queer was an element in many slang terms for shady or criminal
persons, activities etc.] a queer fish see fish. queer (someone's) pitch (in/) to spoil
(someone's) plans; to make it impossible for (someone) to do something: He ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
1952 Angus WilsonHemlock and After He enjoys a little flutter ... and if he finds
himself in Queer Street now and again, I'm sure no one would grudge him his bit
of fun. queer someone's pitch spoil someone's chances of doing something, ...
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Advanced Learner's Dictionary
2 suspicious or unsettling: queer goings-on 3 (informal) slightly ill. 4 (informal
derogatory) homosexual. • a (informal derogatory) a homosexual . queerly adv
queemess n In Queer Street (informal) in (financial) difficulties, queer someone's
pitch ...
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
QUEER be in Queer Street in difficulties If I don 't get my money back from him I
shall be in Queer Street. queer someone's pitch spoil someone's plans She
queered my pitch, by backing out ofthe arrangements at the last minute.
QUESTION _ ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... behaviour seems strange or unusual. queer someone's pitch Brit. spoil
someone's plans or chances of doing something, especially secretly or
maliciously. – derivatives queerish adjective, queerly adverb, queerness noun. –
origin early 16th ...
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The Nelson Contemporary English Dictionary
... according to the frequency of the vibrations Her voice is always slight)y off pitch
5 the degree of intensity or development Excitement reached fever pitch when
they scored the winning goal pitch into to attack furiously queer someone's pitch ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
To queer someone's pitch is to spoil their chances of doing something, especially
secretly or maliciously. This started out as 19th-century slang. The 'pitch' in
question was probably the spot where street performers stationed themselves or
the ...
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
1984 "They say one can't touch pitch without being dirtied with it." (pp. 87-88)
Giroux, E. X. A Death for Adonis. 1984. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986. To
queer someone's pitch (MP 497) 1955 "Queer his pitch with Sir Bohun, you mean
?" (p.
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
