Warp wrote:
> Blue Herring wrote:
> 
>>I thinks its been awhile now, is it "steps/stepping up to the plate"?
> 
> 
>   I don't get it. Maybe it's an English idiom I'm not familiar with.
I think may be a close variation to the military, 'step forward' or 
'volunteer'.

But anyway it derives from the idea of a batter in baseball 'stepping 
up' to 'homeplate' to take his/her turn 'at bat' and have the chance to 
advance his/her team at the risk of 'stiking out' ignomiously.

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