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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