hit the cover off the ball
knock the cover off the ball

We've come from behind a lot and won close ones, even when we weren't hitting the cover off the ball (earlier in the season).

"So it's not like the other guys are hitting the cover off the ball, either."

"And he hit the cover off the ball.

They're not hitting the cover off the ball, but it's an in-line quarter, maybe a little bit better than some people expected.'

"Goldman Sachs hits the cover off the ball," analysts at 24/7 WallStreet.com said.

"They did not have a good January or February, so they hit the cover off the ball in March.

Before the match, Bill Tilden advised Mallory to "hit the cover off the ball."

Judiciously, they had to hit the cover off the ball, and each time they did it you could see the English resolve slip down a little further.

“The reason we all love Miguel is not because he can hit the cover off the ball; it’s because he’s a great guy and a great teammate.

He continued: “Growth had a life of its own — and that’s O.K., when you’re hitting the cover off the ball every time, but at some point, nothing lasts forever.”

But instead of rushing the mound, the Herald retaliated the only way it knew how: Hitting the cover off the ball and drinking Genny like its going out of style.

In response, Mathieu, egged on by a partisan Paris crowd, was doing his best to hit the cover off the ball in the hope that he could make a dent in the Scot’s defences.

"We figure if you can be profitable in October 2001, the worst advertising market in 30 years, when the ad market comes back we will hit the cover off the ball," Mr. Daugherty said.

One almost forgets that what made Williams so exciting as a player was his rich capacity to hate, which he expressed by spitting, gesturing obscenely, loafing in the outfield and hitting the cover off the ball.

But it is safe to presume that Australia felt hard done by then at a significant moment and that they will not be dashing for the pavilion any time soon should they happen to hit the cover off the ball.

In dressing rooms, making the most of the rub of the green and indeed standing there as if butter would not melt in your mouth when you have hit the cover off the ball are not, so to speak, dismissed lightly.

If you think I've done well, this guy has knocked the cover off the ball!

"They've really knocked the cover off the ball in a very short time," she said.

"And Lou just knocked the cover off the ball for us."

Knock the cover off the ball: to hit a baseball extremely hard.

"But he hasn't yet knocked the cover off the ball; they still haven't stopped losing global market share."

But it's not like Staples has been knocking the cover off the ball the past few years, either.

"They knocked the cover off the ball on gross margin."

"We want to knock the cover off the ball."

You are knocking the cover off the ball.

Yet Vlad has been knocking the cover off the ball consistently since his days in Montreal.

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That really knocks the cover off the ball,' said Susquehanna Financial analyst John Shanley.

He said the firm "knocked the cover off the ball" in its investment banking results, as well as in its huge private-client business.

For example, Pop tells Roy to, "knock the cover off the ball," as Roy goes up to bat.

We didnt exactly knock the cover off the ball, but we did enough and Peter was overpowering," Stannard said.

"They really knocked the cover off the ball," said Jennifer Chao, an analyst at Deutsche Bank.

They’ve been just knocking the cover off the ball as far as orders, with 520 for the quarter, and with a (companywide) backlog of $327 billion.

During a game in 1979, a powerful hit he made to right field was very difficult to throw into the infield, because he had "knocked the cover off the ball."

"Knowing our club, we'll go through a four- or five-day period where we'll knock the cover off the ball and the numbers will even up," he said before the game.

The three lead-off hitters knocked the cover off the ball," said Robert Wilkes, an analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman.

"We didn't exactly knock the cover off the ball," said Green, whose Mets had 13 hits, "but we had a patched-up lineup that gave us what they had."

The volatility in California's energy markets became a boon for Enron, and by the fall of 2000 "we were knocking the cover off the ball," Mr. Delainey said.

"They are just knocking the cover off the ball," said Joan Solotar, who follows Morgan Stanley at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

International industrial knocked the cover off the ball,' said Wayne Titche, co-manager of AHA Diversified Equity Fund. '

Winfield, standing on the top step of the Yankee Stadium dugout, paused, then said quietly, as if speaking to himself: "You'll see me in practice, knocking the cover off the ball.