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Henry Ellis wrote:
As an old English guy, the term - stepping up to the plate - always meant `taking resposiblity -acceping or facing the challenge - I never saw it any other way, not something to juggle around to mean what ever one wanted it to mean.
Henry Ellis
Co-author `Positive Aikido`
http://britishaikidoboard.blogspot.com/
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That has always been my understanding. I think thist may be a matter of “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”