go to bat for (to)

go to bat for (to)
 Support (baseball).
 ► “Utah Insurance Commissioner Robert Wilcox told members that he would go to bat for them if necessary on the issue of residential mortgage limits in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ proposed model investment law. The model investment law’s 50% limit on residential loans may hurt small companies.” (National Underwriter, Oct. 3, 1994, p. 64)

American business jargon. 2014.

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  • go to bat for — {v. phr.}, {informal} To help out in trouble or need; give aid to. * /Everybody else thought Billy had broken the window, but Tom went to bat for him./ * /Mary went to bat for the new club program./ Syn.: STAND UP FOR …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • go to bat for — {v. phr.}, {informal} To help out in trouble or need; give aid to. * /Everybody else thought Billy had broken the window, but Tom went to bat for him./ * /Mary went to bat for the new club program./ Syn.: STAND UP FOR …   Dictionary of American idioms

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