pinch-hit
verb[I]
USuk/ˈpɪntʃ.hɪt/us/ˈpɪntʃ.hɪt/to do something for someone because they aresuddenlyunableto do it:
替补He was pinch-hittingforone of theregularTVsportscasters, and was agreatsuccess.他替补一位定期露面的电视体育节目解说员,表现得极为出色。
Replacing and exchanging
- alternate
- alternatively
- bargainsomethingaway
- change over
- instead
- instead of
- lieu
- make up forsomething
- name
- rep
- represent
- shoe
- sing
- someone'sanswer tosomeone/somethingidiom
- spare
- step intosomeone'sshoesidiom
- step into the breachidiom
- sub outsomething
- substitution
- succeed