Talk:List of sports idioms

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Gloves

Someone should look up references to ice hockey for the phrases "the gloves are off / taking the gloves off" due to hockey players' tendency to remove their gloves prior to a fight. I have no cited reference to this, which is why I'm putting it here for someone much smarter to investigate. Thanks! Randrewd 16:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All the references I can find indicate it comes from boxing. See the article. --SigPig |^{SEND - OVER} 17:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weigh in

Could someone please add "to weigh in on something"? I think it's from boxing but I'm not competent. Thanks. Maikel (talk) 23:36, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep the ball rolling

The idiom to "keep the ball rolling" actually originated in William Henry Harrison's 1841 presidential campaign. His supporters had a huge fabric ball that they pushed along with them on the campaign trail. It was used to rally support and record campaign stops. Harrison's followers would cry, "Keep the ball rolling to Washington!" to the effect that if they made it to Washington, Harrison would have won. This can be found in A Pictorial History of American Presidents by John and Alice Durant. Therefore, this really isn't a sports idiom at all, unless you consider presidential campaigns a sport. Huck2012! E. Novachek (talk) 16:09, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thursday Morning Tippy Tappys

Supposedly a 'soccer' related idiom. Is this an American thing? In all my years of watching and following football I've never come across this before. And to suggest Champions League games are usually on Wednesdays is wrong, they are always evenly split between Tuesdays and Wednesdays. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.35.227 (talk) 00:17, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No good deed goes unpunished

After past editors went to the trouble to cite specific OED links as references for dozens of the entries in this list, I had to mark a lot of them as {{dead link}}s due apparently to the paywall. I don't know if the links still work for subscribers. 67.100.125.102 (talk) 21:48, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]