Idiom
bat a thousand
Meaning
To achieve success at each attempt.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She is batting a thousand with her new business ideas.”
“You are batting a thousand with all these great dinner suggestions.”
“The team has been batting a thousand this season, winning every single game they have played so far.”
“I managed to answer every question correctly on the final exam, so I am batting a thousand this semester.”
“The young chef is batting a thousand because every customer has sent back a glowing review of the new menu.”
“Given that he has batted a thousand in every negotiation this year, the board expects him to secure the contract easily.”
Examples
simple
“She is batting a thousand with her new business ideas.”
“You are batting a thousand with all these great dinner suggestions.”
contextual
“The team has been batting a thousand this season, winning every single game they have played so far.”
“I managed to answer every question correctly on the final exam, so I am batting a thousand this semester.”
“The young chef is batting a thousand because every customer has sent back a glowing review of the new menu.”
complex
“Given that he has batted a thousand in every negotiation this year, the board expects him to secure the contract easily.”
Origin
From the statistical conventions of baseball, in which a batting average is expressed as a decimal reflecting the number of hits achieved per 1000 at bats. A player who records a hit for every official appearance at the plate attains a score of 1.000, signifying a perfect performance. The figure 1000 represents the mathematical ideal of one hundred percent efficiency, provided one is willing to ignore the physical exhaustion such a record would imply.
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