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carry the ball |
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carry the ball (American) to take control of an activity and do what is needed to get a piece of work done. The people who carried the ball for his campaign were mainly volunteers. carry the ball to do the work necessary to achieve something. The people who carried the ball for her campaign were mainly volunteers. |
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Again and again the cloud of their players- up gathers before our goal, and comes threatening on, and Warner or Hedge, with young Brooke and the relics of the bull-dogs, break through and carry the ball back; and old Brooke ranges the field like Job's war-horse. |
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