queer someone's pitch

queer someone's pitch
To make a task more difficult for the speaker.

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  • queer someone's pitch — To spoil someone s chances • • • Main Entry: ↑queer * * * queer someone’s pitch british old fashioned phrase to spoil what someone is doing or planning to do Thesaurus: to stop someone doing somethingsynonym to kill a person or animal …   Useful english dictionary

  • queer someone's pitch — ► queer someone s pitch Brit. informal spoil someone s plans or chances of doing something. Main Entry: ↑queer …   English terms dictionary

  • queer someone's pitch — queer (someone s) pitch British & Australian to spoil someone s chances of doing something. She queered my pitch by asking for promotion before I did …   New idioms dictionary

  • queer someone's pitch — Brit. spoil someone s plans or chances of doing something. → queer …   English new terms dictionary

  • queer someone's pitch — British old fashioned to spoil what someone is doing or planning to do …   English dictionary

  • Queer one's pitch — upset someone s plans …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • queer one's pitch — Australian Slang upset someone s plans …   English dialects glossary

  • queer — ► ADJECTIVE 1) strange; odd. 2) informal, derogatory (of a man) homosexual. 3) Brit. informal, dated slightly ill. ► NOUN informal, derogatory ▪ a homosexual man. ► VERB informal ▪ spoil or ruin …   English terms dictionary

  • queer pitch — queer (someone s) pitch British & Australian to spoil someone s chances of doing something. She queered my pitch by asking for promotion before I did …   New idioms dictionary

  • pitch — I. /pɪtʃ / (say pich) verb (t) 1. to set up or erect (a tent, camp, etc.). 2. to put, set, or plant in a fixed or definite place or position (as cricket stumps, etc.). 3. to set or aim at a certain point, degree, level, etc.: he pitched his hopes …  

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