"queer someone's pitch" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-queer someone's pitch.ogg [Australia] Forms: queers someone's pitch [present, singular, third-person], queering someone's pitch [participle, present], queered someone's pitch [participle, past], queered someone's pitch [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} queer someone's pitch (third-person singular simple present queers someone's pitch, present participle queering someone's pitch, simple past and past participle queered someone's pitch)
  1. (chiefly British, idiomatic, dated) To make a task more difficult for someone. Tags: British, dated, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-queer_someone's_pitch-en-verb-5rBfz8z1 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for queer someone's pitch meaning in English (2.1kB)

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          "text": "\"Oh, the Mayor's coming, is he?\"\n\"Yes, but he's very little good. Mayors don't draw as they used; nothing don't draw as it used. The game is pretty well up. What with amateur dramatics, choral unions, and local talent of all sorts, your pitch is queered wherever you go.\"",
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        "(chiefly British, idiomatic, dated) To make a task more difficult for someone."
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