swing for the fences
To swing at the ball as hard as possible, with the aim of getting a home run.
Don't swing for the fences unless it's an easy ball; be content with running part way.
swing
UK /ˈswɪŋ/ US /ˈswɪŋ/
verb 5noun 5name 1
Definitions
verb
1
To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
The plant swung in the breeze.
With one accord the tribe swung rapidly toward the frightened cries, and there found Terkoz holding an old female by the hair and beating her unmercifully with his great hands.
2
To dance.
3
To ride on a swing.
The children laughed as they swung.
4
To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
We find it difficult to meet couples our age, and often swing with single, straight men. We have rules: no married guys cheating on their wives, no one too young or too old, and no one who supports Trump.
My husband wasn’t so lucky and didn’t get to swing at all so was very disappointed. I’m desperate to do it all again but he’s not so keen.
5
To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
“It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!” Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
noun
1
The act, or an instance, of swinging.
For a time he kept to the ground, but finally, discovering no spoor indicative of nearby meat, he took to the trees. With the first dizzy swing from tree to tree all the old joy of living swept over him. Vain regrets and dull heartache were forgotten. Now was he living. Now, indeed, was the true happiness of perfect freedom his.
2
The manner in which something is swung.
He worked tirelessly to improve his golf swing.
Door swing indicates direction the door opens.
3
The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
4
A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
5
A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
A German court has ruled that a landlord was within her rights to evict a man for persistently using a squeaky swing set as a sex prop in his flat late at night.
name
1
A surname.
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