on one's own bat

English

Prepositional phrase

on one's own bat

  1. Alternative form of off one's own bat
    • 1977, Lennard Bickel, Mawson's Will: The Greatest Survival Story Ever Written, page 37:
      I think you should go on your own bat—and I can get you some cash support.
    • 2003, Brian Penton, The Inheritors, page 149:
      Have ye done it on your own bat or did he kick you out?

Translations
of one's own accord — see of one's own accord

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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