If I were ignorant of baseball where "strike out" means to fail to get on base (or even there if this were the first time I had ever observed baseball) and I were at a single's bar and heard my host laugh that his friend had "struck out" in his amourous attention of a pretty young thing, I would have no idea, or very vague at best, what he meant until it were explained to me.Well, Karl, as one who is almost ignorant of baseball, I can agree with and confirm the truth of what you say here! If I heard this here in the UK, where baseball is hardly played, I would take it that he had either hit her (struck out at her) or deleted her from his list of prospects (struck her out). Having been told what the baseball term means, I supposed you mean that he had not succeeded with her, but I would not understand this.
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