One of the things I have
been working on is the extension course I’ve been trying to offer as extra
credits for the students at my workplace. I cannot deny how challenging it has been
so far to me to find materials about football and the English language.
On the other hand, I have
been learning a lot about football as well as the specific vocabulary (in
English) about the most popular sport in the world.
Do you guy happen to know
the meaning of ‘a big ask’?
This noun phrase has become pretty
popular in many sports around the world recently. It clearly means that something
is very hard to do. As thefreedictionary.com
puts it, it may also give us the idea of: “a
request to someone to do something for you that you know will be difficult for
them.”
In football, if a team, for example,
Barcelona are losing by 1 or 2 goals in a game, it may be considered a big ask for them to come back and win
the game. (Well, if we’re talking about F.C. Barcelona, I would think it is ‘a big ask’ at all!)
From time to time, ‘a big ask’ may be heard when a
commentator is talking about a team in a very low position in a football league
– obviously, we would have to imagine that the team has not been playing well,
for instance.
Example:
It
was a big ask for bottom side Vasco
da Gama to try and defeat league leaders Clube de Regatas do Flamengo. (Actually, it is always a big ask!)
Interestingly, another noun phrase – a
tough ask – may also
be used to say the same thing. Both phrases have been around since the 1980s. according
to the Oxford English Dictionary,
such expression originated in Australia.
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