Tinker to Evers to Chance

alternative Tinker to Evans to Chance

1. A famous baseball infield double-play combination.

alternative Tinker to Evans to Chance

1. USidiomaticA task accomplished quickly by well-executed teamwork; those involved in the teamwork.

   Prothrombin-to-thrombin-to-fibrin had a Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance simplicity that was 100 percent American in some way.

   1998, Allen B. Weisse, The staff and the serpent, page 61

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   The sonarman picks up the enemy, shoots the position to the radar controller sitting near him, and the radar controller, in a Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance play, vectors a hovering helicopter to the spot.

   1957 September, “Can we defend our coasts against Russian subs?”, in Popular Science, volume 171, number 3, page 161

   It was like Tinker to Evers to Chance. Colson-Chance then flipped the good news to Hugh Scott, who read Mrs. Beard's denial on the Senate floor that same day.

   1974, Carl Bernstein with Bob Woodward, All the President's Men, page 256

   When it comes to computers, though, systems integration is too often more reminiscent of the Keystone Kops than Tinker to Evers to Chance.

   1990, Traffic world, page 37

   Spiegel caught the names Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg, whom he gathered were a kind of upscale Tinker to Evers to Chance.

   2001, Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark, page 204

   ... a financial Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance operation involving Bankers Life and Casualty, plus an old company called Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, ....

   2008, Nancy Kriplen, The eccentric billionaire: John D. MacArthur-- empire builder, reluctant, page 67