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knock one out of the ball park

knock one out of the ball park is the alternative form of hit one out of the ballpark.

Meaning of hit one out of the ballpark

Verb

hit one out of the ballpark (third-person singular simple present hits one out of the ballpark, present participle hitting one out of the ballpark, simple past and past participle hit one out of the ballpark)

  1. To hit a fair ball so well that the ball flies over all of the spectators' seats and lands outside the stadium.
  2. (broadly, idiomatic) To produce a spectacular achievement.
    • The Canada Institute, part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has hit one out of the ballpark with its Montreal fundraiser.2007 September 18, Patricia Best, “Elite dig deep for tribute dinner”, in Globe and Mail, Toronto, retrieved 29 Jun 2008

Forms of knock one out of the ball park

third-person singular presentknocks one out of the ball park
present participleknocking one out of the ball park
past participleknocked one out of the ball park
pastknocked one out of the ball park

Questions about knock one out of the ball park

What is knock one out of the ball park the alternative form of?
Knock one out of the ball park is the alternative form of hit one out of the ballpark.

Words near knock one out of the ball park in the dictionary

  1. knock on heaven's door
  2. knock on the door of
  3. knock on the head
  4. knock on wood
  5. knock one out
  6. knock one out of the ball park
  7. knock one out of the ballpark
  8. knock one out of the park
  9. knock oneself out
  10. knock out
  11. knock out of the box

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