Idiom
bat five hundred
Meaning
To be successful half of the time; to have a success rate of 50%.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I only bat five hundred when I try to cook dinner.”
“My sales pitches are hit or miss, so I usually bat five hundred at work.”
“Although the young lawyer shows great promise, she currently bats five hundred in the courtroom, winning half her cases.”
Examples
simple
“I only bat five hundred when I try to cook dinner.”
contextual
“My sales pitches are hit or miss, so I usually bat five hundred at work.”
complex
“Although the young lawyer shows great promise, she currently bats five hundred in the courtroom, winning half her cases.”
Origin
The term originates from the statistical conventions of baseball, specifically the practice of reckoning a hitter's batting average in thousandths. A player attaining a success rate of five hundred out of one thousand is thus described as batting five hundred.
Key words
Related idioms
- Updated