Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:06:00 EST

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: WOTY pre-ve R



I'm not sure about the sexual analogy, but besides basketball and diving,

another relatively hoary sports usage is in baseball, when a batter "really

nailed a hanging slider", etc. That one might be analyzed as hitting the nail

on the head, but that doesn't really generalize to the basketball or other

contexts any better than nailing the feet to the floor. But perhaps meta-

phorically it can be understood in the appropriate way. --Larry