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English
Proverb
if there's grass on the field, play ball
- Alternative form of if there's grass on the pitch, play ball
- 1998 Clive Barker, Galilee pg 110
- Mitchell's taste for girls ran to the barely pubescent. 'If there's grass on the field, play ball, that's what he used to say,' the 'classmate' remembered.
- 1998 Chris Simunek, Paradise Burning pg 80
- You see the way she looks at you? What are you, some kind of faggot?
She's fifteen, man.
If there's grass on the field, you can play ball.
- 1998 Tobias Wolff, You Can't Kill the Rooster, Esquire 129 no 6 June 1994
- The work puts him in contact with...men who offer dating advice like 'If she's old enough to bleed, she's old enough to breed' and 'If there's grass on the field, I say it's time to play ball." Grass refers metaphorically to female pubic hair.
Doyle (2007a) 199 Cf "When they are BIG enough, they are old enough" and "Old enough to BLEED, old enough to breed."