Explain
Pitch
Pitch verb - To fix in an upright position.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Never trust any investment opportunity sales pitch that spends any considerable amount of time having to explain to you "why this is not a pyramid scheme".
Source: Ponzi -
Then they break the fourth wall to explain this didn't actually happen, they found out about the short pitch in a much more roundabout way, but this made for a better story.
Source: Film / The Big Short - In the anime of Strawberry Marshmallow, native English girl tries to explain how she knows so much, especially about Japanese culture, with a quote from the apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus: "He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled."
Source: As the Good Book Says
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