In baseball, the Americans often like fat curve ball, so that a mutation in the direction of the ball to each other wrong impression, so that the ball can not hit back. Other ball games, such as soccer and table tennis also have such a curve ball. Gradually, that the other side illusions, and unable to meet the game into everyday language: throw sb. A curve, meaning “a person through a tough Ershi astonished.”
Consider the following students complain about this professor’s words:
Professor Green certainly threw us a curve today. Half the questions were from parts of the book he told us to read but he never covered them in class. Of course, most of us didn’t bother to read the stuff, so we really got caught.
Professor Green, it can be really surprised us. Half of the exam is he wants us to look at the contents of that book, but he never talked about in class. Most of us have not taken the time to see that stuff, so we were caught.
And “throw sb. A curve” means the same phrase is “throw sb. For a loop”, meaning “to cause someone surprise and annoyance.” The following example is a girl complaining about her boyfriend’s words:
Bill told me he couldn’t take me out last night because he had to study for a big exam. So it threw me for a loop when I saw him walking into the movie theater with that stupid girl who sits next to him in biology class .
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