K****D
发帖数: 30533 | 1 今天又学到了一个新词。偶今天赢了后对手说他比赛中途felt charley horse. 偶猜
可能是指抽筋，就说it's lucky for me then.
回来一google果然是抽筋。 | m*e
发帖数: 1018 | | y*h
发帖数: 2121 | 3 Federer lost the first match at Rome to Chardy... | b*********s
发帖数: 6757 | 4 3rd set tie breaker could go either way. I think at subtle difference in
mental could have a huge difference in results. I can sense it in
recreational levels, so at pro level, it is probably even more apparent. I
hope this loss will motivate Federer to practice harder for the French Open.
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: Federer lost the first match at Rome to Chardy...
| b*********s
发帖数: 6757 | 5 search it myself too. Pretty interesting:
This term(Charley Horse) for a cramp or pulled muscle in the leg is
originally a baseball term, or at least it first gained widespread use in
baseball jargon. The reference is a mystery. No one knows who Charley was or
why he may have had a lame horse.
The earliest known use of the term is from the Boston Globe, 17 July 1886:
Several years ago, says the Chicago Tribune, Joe Quest, now of the
Athletics, gave the name of “Charlie horse” to a peculiar contraction and
hardening of the muscles and tendons of the thigh, to which base ball
players are especially liable from the sudden starting and stopping in
chasing balls, as well as the frequent slides in base running. Pfetlor,
Anson and Kelly are so badly troubled with “Charley horse” there are times
they can scarcely walk. Gore had it so bad he had to lay off a few days,
and is not entirely free from it now. Williamson, too, has had a touch of it
.1
There are any number of tales about who Charley was. Sometimes he owned a
lame horse and in others he was a lame horse. Perhaps the most plausible
tale is one that again involves baseball player Joe Quest. First told in the
Grand Rapids, Michigan Daily Democrat on 28 June 1889:
A Newcastleman gives the origin of Charley horse. Years ago, Joe Quest
was employed as an apprentice in the machine shop of Quest & Shaw in
Newcastle, his father, who was one of the proprietors of the firm, had an
old white horse by the name of Charley. Doing usage in pulling heavy loads
had stiffened the animal’s legs so that he walked as if troubled with
strained tendons. Afterwards, when Quest became a member of the Chicago club
, he was troubled, with others, with a peculiar stiffness of the legs, which
brought to his mind the ailment of the old white horse Charley. Joe said
that the ball players troubled with the ailment hobbled exactly as did the
old horse, and as no one seemed to know what the trouble was, Quest dubbed
it “Charley horse.”2
Whether this story is true or not is uncertain, but it does have a
connection to Quest, like in the July 1886 citation, and it is recorded
early enough that the details might not be too garbled in the telling. It’s
interesting to note that many of the other tales that reference a horse
named Charley give the detail that he was a white horse.
http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/charley_hors
【在 K****D 的大作中提到】
: 今天又学到了一个新词。偶今天赢了后对手说他比赛中途felt charley horse. 偶猜
: 可能是指抽筋，就说it's lucky for me then.
: 回来一google果然是抽筋。
| s***i
发帖数: 6149 | 6 偶是多年前看lost学会的，john locke的台词 | y*h
发帖数: 2121 | 7 Yes I agree.
The condition is tricky at the tiebreak. windy and sandy. Family must be a
reason why Federer do not practice too much. He needs to train hard.
Open.
【在 b*********s 的大作中提到】
: 3rd set tie breaker could go either way. I think at subtle difference in
: mental could have a huge difference in results. I can sense it in
: recreational levels, so at pro level, it is probably even more apparent. I
: hope this loss will motivate Federer to practice harder for the French Open.
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