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pitch woo
Idioms and Phrases
Court, make love to, flatter, as in They sat on the porch swing, pitching woo , or He's an excellent salesman, adept at pitching woo . This idiom, which may be obsolescent, uses pitch in the sense of “talk.” [ Slang ; early 1800s]Example Sentences
Using his four-seam fastball heavily and showing excellent command with the pitch, Woo fired first-pitch strikes to 15 of the 20 batters he faced and had only three counts that reached three balls.
But Ken's alarming attempts to pitch woo make Nathan utter those three reliably triggering words.
Busy though he is with spycraft, Bertie finds time to help Monty pitch woo.
They'd evolved a way to pitch woo and bring home the bacon.
Famous people of all stripes are returning the compliment by looking to Broadway to rejuvenate their careers, enhance their artistic credibility and pitch woo to audiences that may have ceased to believe in their existence.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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