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without troubling the scorers

without troubling the scorers prepositional phrase: describing the manner of the dismissal of a batsman who is out without scoring any runs.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (informal) Describing the manner of the dismissal of a batsman who is out without scoring any runs
    • Watson was caught and bowled for a fairly played eighteen, and Jardine again retired to the pavilion without troubling the scorers.1890, The Cambridge Review
    • The PE teacher, the putative authority on all things sporting, went out, as they say, without troubling the scorers.1993, Tom Raabe, Sports for the Athletically Impaired

Examples of without troubling the scorers in a sentence

  • Mark Waugh came and went without troubling the scorers, leaving Australia at a perilous 2/16 with one man on the way to hospital.2001, Barry Gibbs, My Cricket Journey:
  • He was brought down to earth in Georgetown, however, ten days later, suffering the indignity of being run out without troubling the scorers in the victory over British Guiana.2003, James P. Coldham, Lord Hawke: a cricketing legend:

Questions about without troubling the scorers

What does without troubling the scorers mean?
Without troubling the scorers means describing the manner of the dismissal of a batsman who is out without scoring any runs.
How do you use without troubling the scorers in a sentence?
Mark Waugh came and went without troubling the scorers, leaving Australia at a perilous 2/16 with one man on the way to hospital.
What part of speech is without troubling the scorers?
Without troubling the scorers is a prepositional phrase.

Words near without troubling the scorers in the dictionary

  1. without so much as a by your leave
  2. without so much as a by-your-leave
  3. without tea and biscuits
  4. without tears
  5. without trace
  6. without troubling the scorers
  7. without welt or guard
  8. without-door
  9. withoutcha
  10. withoutdoors
  11. withoute

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