Ball game
Ball game noun - An earnest effort for superiority or victory over another.
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Cricket
Cricket noun - Leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together.
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- We're shunned for using the word 'cricket' to refer to a ball game, as the rest of the galaxy still remembers the Krikkit Wars.
Source: Aliens Speaking English -
An expression of cricket is shown by the line "...all you need now is to be good at some damn silly bat and ball game that no one's invented yet..."
Source: Land Downunder - Take Me Out at the Ball Game: In Death Before Wicket, a student playing in a cricket match nearly dies from a snake bite, which turns out to be a shoe rigged to inject poison into the target while he is on the pitch.
Source: Literature / Phryne Fisher
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