kick into touch en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
- (UK) To kick a ball over the touchline in a game of rugby, often to avoid pressure from the opponent team in a difficult situation, to end injury time or to gain territory.
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(Ireland, UK, idiomatic) To evade an issue; to stop from happening.
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I'm going to kick it into touch.
With referee Mark Clattenburg at the centre of a new racism row, is football once more succumbing to a blight many thought had been kicked into touch?
2012 October 29, Barney Ronay, “Is the Premier League becoming racist again?”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| kicks into touch | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| kicking into touch | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| kick to touch | alternative | lexicographic | |
| kicked into touch | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| kicked into touch | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Translations (5)
fi sysätä syrjään (evade an issue) · fr botter en touche (evade an issue) · fr botter en touche (rugby) · fr noyer le poisson (evade an issue) · fi potkaista sivurajan yli (rugby)