WORDY WEDNESDAY: 'BALLPARK (FIGURE)'
06 / 05 / 2015
WORDY WEDNESDAY: 'BALLPARK (FIGURE)': meaning and examples
Hello everyone, and welcome back to The Daily Vitamin! For our first May Wordy Wednesday post, we are looking at the slang use of the word BALLPARK.
A BALLPARK is the place where we play baseball. However, colloquially BALLPARK is used to mean "an estimate or a guess; a range within which an amount is likely to be correct."
Example 1: I don't know the final cost of the repairs, but if you said 50 euro you'd be in the ballpark.
Example 2: Flight costs change often, but a ballpark figure for a flight from the U.S. to Europe is 1,000 euro.
That's all for today. Join us tomorrow for May's Theme Thursday: idioms with insects.
Until then, have a great day!
A BALLPARK is the place where we play baseball. However, colloquially BALLPARK is used to mean "an estimate or a guess; a range within which an amount is likely to be correct."
Example 1: I don't know the final cost of the repairs, but if you said 50 euro you'd be in the ballpark.
Example 2: Flight costs change often, but a ballpark figure for a flight from the U.S. to Europe is 1,000 euro.
That's all for today. Join us tomorrow for May's Theme Thursday: idioms with insects.
Until then, have a great day!
