in the dirt
idiom
baseball, of a pitch
: having hit the ground near home plate before reaching the catcher
He swung and missed at a curveball in the dirt.
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Rangers with the National Park Service (NPS) responded to a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina, on Sunday after receiving reports of a suspicious item in the dirt.
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Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2025
Abandon hope and anger and leave your expectations in the dirt.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
This series covers the gamut, all set the actual site of the Hanford nuclear reactor nuclear clean-up site in Washington state, where 56 million gallons of toxic nuclear waste is buried in the dirt — and leaking — and making its way to the Columbia River.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025
Reeds are the perfect hiding place for horrors, as will shortly become abundantly clear, when a girl’s body is revealed in the dirt, in all its helplessness.
—Catherine Bray, Variety, 16 May 2025
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Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2025
Abandon hope and anger and leave your expectations in the dirt.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
This series covers the gamut, all set the actual site of the Hanford nuclear reactor nuclear clean-up site in Washington state, where 56 million gallons of toxic nuclear waste is buried in the dirt — and leaking — and making its way to the Columbia River.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025
Reeds are the perfect hiding place for horrors, as will shortly become abundantly clear, when a girl’s body is revealed in the dirt, in all its helplessness.
—Catherine Bray, Variety, 16 May 2025
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“In the dirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20dirt. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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