in the dirt

idiom

baseball, of a pitch

: having hit the ground near home plate before reaching the catcher

He swung and missed at a curveball in the dirt.

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Stop Dirt In Its Tracks Add a doormat at the front door so that your family and guests will stop tracking in the dirt. —

Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024 As for her potential co-habitants in the dirt, co-showrunner Joe Wiseman assures us that Patience isn’t lying about the others to mess with our beloved ghosts. —

Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024 Denzel Washington was gruesomely low down in the dirt as a cop willing to wield his privilege against vulnerable Black and brown communities in 2001’s admittedly loathsome Training Day. —

Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2024 Baseball fans were tickled this year when Seattle Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo placed his sunflower seeds in the dirt in an ornate arrangement that possibly represented some kind of message to extraterrestrials. —

Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for in the dirt