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Bal
Donner le bal à quelqu'un (French). To make one dance for it;
to abuse one. In several games played with a ball, the person who
catches the ball or to whom the ball is given, is put to an immense
amount of labour. Thus, in Hurling, the person who holds the ball has
one of the labours of Hercules to pass through. His opponent tries to
lay hold of him, and the hurler makes his way over hills, dales,
hedges, and ditches, through bushes, briars, mire, plashes, and even
rivers. Sometimes twenty or thirty persons lie tugging together in the
water, scrambling and scratching for the ball. (See Strutt,
Sports and Pastimes, section xii.) (See Ball.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Bal from Infoplease:
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