queer someone's pitchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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queer someone's pitch (三人称単数 現在形 queers someone's pitch, 現在分詞 queering someone's pitch, 過去形および過去分詞形 queered someone's pitch)

1. (chiefly Britain, idiomatic, dated) To make a task more difficult for someone.
   • 1880, The Era Almanack‎^[1]:

     "Oh, the Mayor's coming, is he?"
     "Yes, but he's very little good. Mayors don't draw as they used; nothing don't draw as it used. The game is pretty well up. What with amateur dramatics, choral unions, and local talent of all sorts, your pitch is queered wherever you go."

   • 2002, Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, Bloomsbury, published 2001, page 45:

     —no question, global buffeting has queered our pitch for growth in many ways, currency down-down, oil prices up-up—