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knock the ball out of the park

knock the ball out of the 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 the ball out of the park

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

Questions about knock the ball out of the park

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

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

  1. knock someone's block off
  2. knock someone's head off
  3. knock someone's lights out
  4. knock someone's socks off
  5. knock someone's wind out
  6. knock the ball out of the park
  7. knock the corners off
  8. knock the daylight out of
  9. knock the daylights out of
  10. knock the living daylights out of
  11. knock the persimmon

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