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Weekly Contest #136
Baseball Parenting The idiom “giving it the old college try” was adopted into the American language in the early 1920’s. The phrase expresses the notion of persistence and determination to achieve a goal even when the odds of success are not in one’s favor or are out of one’s control. What better application fits the institution of parenthood? It is the spot-on idiom regarding the effort of rearing children. The fact that the phrase did not originate on a college campus is a solid meld with the fact that no college degree or technical train...
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