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The days for "bench-warmers" with salaries are also past. ["New York Sporting News," Jan. 9, 1892]O.E. had bencsittend "one who sits on a bench."
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bench-warmer — benchˈ warmer noun (sport sl) A reserve player • • • Main Entry: ↑bench … Useful english dictionary
bench warmer — n. a ballplayer who spends most of the game on the bench waiting to play; a second rate player. □ You’ l l never be anything but a bench warmer. □ I do what I’m told so I can play every game. I don’t want to be a bench warmer … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
bench warmer — n. a player who remains on the bench, usually due to lack of skill. He was a bench warmer and never played in a single game … English slang
bench warmer — noun (sports) a substitute who seldom plays • Topics: ↑sport, ↑athletics • Hypernyms: ↑substitute, ↑reserve, ↑second stringer * * * noun : one that sits on a … Useful english dictionary
Bench Warmer International — was the first Fact|date=February 2007 trading card company to put beautiful girls on collector cards. Their motto is Trading Cards Never Looked So Good . Some of the first models included Baywatch beauties Cory Givens and Traci Bingham. They… … Wikipedia
bench warmer — See: WARM THE BENCH … Dictionary of American idioms
bench warmer — See: WARM THE BENCH … Dictionary of American idioms
bench\ warmer — See: warm the bench … Словарь американских идиом
bench warmer — /ˈbɛntʃ wɔmə/ (say bench wawmuh) noun 1. Sport Colloquial a reserve who does not take part in many games. 2. a person who does not take an active role in an organisation but allows others to take the lead …
bench-warmer — noun (colloquial) A player who rarely or never gets to play in the matches, and is most often a substitute … Wiktionary
