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Stepping up to the plate?

Anyways, at the plate batting the ball is your chance to do something for your team. All eyes are upon you to deliver and make something happen, hopefully something wonderful.

Hence therefore, to step up to the plate also suggests great responsibility.

Stepping UP (instead of DOWN) implies exactly that – that you’re able to rise to the occasion.

Rise to the occasion?

Or rise to the challenge, to have the courage and ability to deal with the difficult situation successfully.

In other words, you won’t quit or, worse, faint.

Alright, let’s examine media examples of situations where people have occasion to “step up to the plate” and get the job done.

1. You were talking about utility rates being bad for poor people, the same thing goes on with the insurance rates charged to the working poor. It is a known fact that insurance companies don’t want to insure the working poor. Most of them have a rate system that is against the poor working people in favor of the wealthier middle class and rich families. You need to check in to this and write an article in regard to this subject. It is time for somebody to step up to the plate and address this issue.

- Letters to the WSWS, WSWS.org, July 20, 2002.

2. Mark Serwotka, 48, general secretary, Public and Commercial Services Union

Serwotka spent the first six months of his life in a Catholic orphanage in Cardiff before being adopted by a Polish-British father and a Welsh mother. He joined the civil service at 16 as a benefits clerk, becoming a union member on his first day.