swing for the fences (English, verb)
expansion: swing for the fences (third-person singular simple present swings for the fences, present participle swinging for the fences, simple past and past participle swung for the fences)
Senses:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: To swing at the ball as hard as possible, with the aim of getting a home run.
tags: US
glosses: To do something extremely ambitious, especially rashly.
tags: US
idiomatic
Forms:
form: swings for the fences
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swinging for the fences
tags: participle
present
form: swung for the fences
tags: participle
past
form: swung for the fences
tags: past
form: swing for the fence
tags: alternative