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Howie Newsome: Morning, Si. - Anything in the papers I ought to know?
Si Crowell: Nothing much, except we're losing about the best baseball pitcher Grover's Corners ever had.
Howie Newsome: Reckon he was. He's been standing off the whole of South New Hampshire single-handed, looks like.
(Thornton Wilder, Our Town, Act II)
What is the meaning of stand off in this sentence?
Si Crowell: Nothing much, except we're losing about the best baseball pitcher Grover's Corners ever had.
Howie Newsome: Reckon he was. He's been standing off the whole of South New Hampshire single-handed, looks like.
(Thornton Wilder, Our Town, Act II)
What is the meaning of stand off in this sentence?