Hail Mary pass 관용구

a suicide pass (hockey)

a pass behind the player causing him to look back Older players always stop when receiving a suicide pass.

feather a pass (hockey)

pass a puck accurately but softly Nilsson could feather a pass better than the other players.

just passing through

(See pass through)

make a pass

show that you feel romantic toward someone Julie made a pass at me. She sent me a love note and smiled at me.

make a pass at someone

make romantic advances to a member of the opposite sex He was fired because he made a pass at one of the women who he works with.

pass

old fashioned, dated, old hat It's pass

pass around

pass from person to person in the room, hand out The speaker passed around a sheet of paper for us to sign.

pass away

die, pass on Grandma passed away in 1974. She was 92.

pass for

appear similar to, look like In that uniform, you could pass for a police officer.

pass muster

pass a test or checkup, be good enough I wrote some of the instructions of the computer manual and will send them to my partner to see if they pass muster.

Hail Mary pass

In American football, a continued advanced canyon with a low success of actuality caught, about befuddled in agony at the end of a half. And he throws a Hail Mary pass! Ah, it's incomplete. No overtime tonight, folks.Learn more: hail, Mary, pass

hail Mary pass

A action approved adjoin abundant odds. This appellation originated in football, area it agency a last-ditch advance to account because time is active out. The name comes from the accustomed adoration alpha with “Hail Mary” and alludes to the actuality that the passer is, in effect, praying that his bandy will succeed. A acclaimed archetype occurred in 1984, back Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie threw a continued canyon into Miami’s end zone. It was bent by his roommate, Gerard Phelan, for a touchdown that put Boston into the 1985 Cotton Bowl. The appellation anon was transferred to added long-shot maneuvers. In the Persian Gulf War of 1991, Allied troops were lined up on Saudi soil, and amid them and Kuwait City stood the absolute Iraqi force. A French battalion, authoritative a advanced arc about both lines, confused some 150 afar abaft the Iraqis and army a acknowledged advance that in aftereffect concluded the war. In the columnist appointment that followed, Allied administrator Schwartzkopf alleged the action “a Hail Mary play.”Learn more: hail, Mary, pass

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part with partners in crime party-pooper party to that pass pass around pass away pass for pass muster pass off pass on pass out pass the buck pass through pass up pass water pass wind