"Raft" doesn't mean "a lot" but "a whole raft" does. Yeah, probably an Americanism, insofar as I've seen it used here.
Not sure whether the first commenter really doesn't know what what "stepping up to the plate" means or is just indulging in sarcasm. Aren't there plates in the batters' boxes in cricket?
American discourse is full of sports metaphors, but then so is everyone else's. Do the British still use the term "sticky wicket"?
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Date: 2009-10-21 03:07 pm (UTC)Not sure whether the first commenter really doesn't know what what "stepping up to the plate" means or is just indulging in sarcasm. Aren't there plates in the batters' boxes in cricket?
American discourse is full of sports metaphors, but then so is everyone else's. Do the British still use the term "sticky wicket"?