The Literature Network

base

Content courtesy of

From: The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
Date: 20040101
Author:JUDITH SIEFRING

base get to first base achieve the first step towards your objective. informal, chiefly North American

1962

P. G. Wodehouse

Service with a Smile She gives you the feeling that you'll never get to first base with her.
off base mistaken. North American informal

1947 Time Your Latin American department was off base in its comparison of the Portillo Hotel in Chile with our famous Sun Valley.
touch base briefly make or renew contact with someone or something. informal

1984

Armistead Maupin

Babycakes In search of a routine, he touched base with his launderette, his post office, his ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Other Articles on P. G. Wodehouse

A CELEBRATION OF ENGLISHNESS.(P.G. Wodehouse)

In search of Blandings: an investigation into the sources that inspired P.G. Wodehouse.

What s On: Welcome for Wodehouse Amateur Stage

P.G. Wodehouse paid by German Nazis.

One sign of P.G. Wodehouse's g ...

Seriously Silly: P.G. Wodehouse and His World

The work of P.G. Wodehouse is immortal, but he was guilty of a moral lapse

What s On: Welcome for Wodehouse; Amateur Stage.(Features)

LOVE OF THE MIDLANDS; The P G Wodehouse Society (UK) is coming to Birmingham for the first ti me next Saturday. Ross Reyburn discovers the Wodehouse Midland Trail.

Wodehouse secretly in pay of the Nazis, say MI5 files WARTIME INTELLIGENCE Secret papers reveal author was paid for propaganda work and would have been prosecuted if he had returned to UK

Find More Articles

About Our Articles: We've partnered with Highbeam Research to provide these article excerpts for your research needs. However, due to copyright laws, we cannot publish the whole article. To view these articles in full length you'll need to use the link above to access the free trial at Highbeam.