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Pitch into   /pɪtʃ ɪntˈu/   Listen
verb
Pitch  v. t.  
1.
To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.
2.
To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
3.
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
4.
To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
5.
To set or fix, as a price or value. (Obs.)
Pitched battle, a general battle; a battle in which the hostile forces have fixed positions; in distinction from a skirmish.
To pitch into, to attack; to assault; to abuse. (Slang)





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"Pitch into" Quotes from Famous Books



... laughing, and what does Nora do but pitch into me for it. "Can't you find anything better to do, Jack, than encouraging Betty to be rude and unladylike?" she commenced sharply; but just then Hannah came, asking for something, and, with a great air of importance, Nora went ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus
... Cashel, his eyes sparkling, "I should like to see one of those chaps we saw on the common pitch into the doctor—get him on the ropes, ...
— Cashel Byron's Profession • George Bernard Shaw
... as he will presently declare to a fellow- gentleman in waiting, "to pitch into the young man"; but his instructions are positive. Therefore he sulkily supposes that the young man must come up into the library. There he leaves the young man in a large room, not over-light, while ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... if the Red Ghost appears? The first thing it will pitch into will be ourselves. I don't think I will go. I have got all over prospecting for gold, and wish that summer might come so that I can ...
— Elam Storm, The Wolfer - The Lost Nugget • Harry Castlemon
... of opinion that it is my duty to pitch into his rear, although in so doing the head of his column may reach Warrenton before ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer


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