take the count
Example Sentences
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One strikeout later, Trout came up, worked a tough at-bat against Hernandez to take the count full, then obliterated the next offering and sent it soaring over the wall in left-center.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2012
Kelley fell behind 3-1 to Upton, rallied to take the count full, then threw his trademark slider down and away.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2012
Did he whiff to take the count even?
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2011
Under the terms of the bill the party in power could hire 105.000 men�250 to each Congressional district�and pay them $4 a day for two weeks to take the count.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I'll be the daintiest bridegroom ever yet; Nothing to do but take the count, then - bing!
From The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor by Irwin, Wallace