inside baseball
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inside baseball
1. adjective Relating to or containing nuanced details and minutiae that require such specific knowledge or insight as to be unintelligible or irrelevant to outsiders. Usually hyphenated. The novel is so overwrought with long, inside-baseball descriptions of the publishing world that the plot, as may be appreciated by the common reader, is largely lost in the process. You can't give your patients this kind of inside-baseball information about their illnesses—you have to put it in terms they can understand. I don't need all the inside-baseball details of the process, OK? Just give me a quick summary.
2. noun An approach containing or concerned with nuanced details and minutiae requiring such specific knowledge or insight as to be unintelligible or irrelevant to outsiders. I hate going to dinner with my wife's economist friends. There's always so much inside baseball between them that I'm always left with nothing to talk about. Are you bored? I'm sorry, I know there's a lot of inside baseball this work event. I used to work in HR, so I'm not as put off by the inside baseball as you might think. It's pretty interesting to hear how the field has evolved since I left.
See also: inside
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