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left field
noun
- Baseball.
- the area of the outfield to the left of center field, as viewed from home plate.
- the position of the player covering this area.
- Slang. a position or circumstance that is remote from an ordinary or general trend.
left-field
adjective
- informal.regarded as being outside the mainstream; unconventional
Word History and Origins
Origin of left field1
Word History and Origins
Origin of left field1
Idioms and Phrases
- out in left field, Slang. completely mistaken; wrong.
More idioms and phrases containing left field
see out in left field .Example Sentences
The Dodgers seemed to flip the script in the top of the seventh, scoring five times in an inning keyed by Freddie Freeman’s go-ahead two-run double down the left field line.
In his left field of vision, “I just see black feathers.”
But the third, which was left up in the zone and out over the plate, he launched to the left field seats for a game-tying blast — his second home run in a 24-hour span.
There will inevitably be an event that comes out of left field that makes our jaws drop.
Over left field fence over the street and into the houses.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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