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Our long national nightmare is almost over, 2 sets to zero, 4-0 in the third...
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joeybee12
Jun 2015
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madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)1. Welcome back!! Is nadal deflating his balls, also???
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)3. Hellooo...
he can't hear you!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)2. I really dislike Murray...
But glad he looks like he's going to win...he'll give Dickovij a better match.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)4. Sets?
Music threads belong in one of the Entertainment groups, fella.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)5. I bet sets was used in tennis long before it was a common musical term
But I'm too lazy to research that.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)6. I'm bored enough.
It's a push.
Meaning "group of pieces musicians perform at a club during 45 minutes" (more or less) is from c.1925, though it is found in a similar sense in 1580s.
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"Something that has been set" (1510s), hence the use in tennis (1570s) and the theatrical meaning "scenery for an individual scene in a play, etc.," recorded from 1859.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/set
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"Something that has been set" (1510s), hence the use in tennis (1570s) and the theatrical meaning "scenery for an individual scene in a play, etc.," recorded from 1859.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/set
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)7. You must be bored....
Now look up dinner place SETtings.