American English at State - We're concluding this month's series of idioms with an idiom from baseball and softball. The player in the graphic below is sliding into a base, which is
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base_1 noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced American Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com
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