Get his gloves dirty

[Kontol]

I don't understand what the phrase "get his gloves dirty" means in this context. Can you explain?

West Ham 2-1 Wolves (80 mins) Lukasz Fabianski gets his gloves dirty again as Mario Lemina stabs towards goal. But again a clean view and an easy dive on the ball for the goalkeeper.

 

[BobK]

Ir's just an indirect way of saying the goalkeeper saved it (there's mud on the ball). Sports reporting is often rather florid. Another example is in cricket, when a score of out for 0 is sometimes reported as 's/he was dismissed without troubling the scorers

 

[Kontol]

Is it a kind of an idiom that is not listed in a dictionary?

 

[Rover_KE]

Dictionaries define words—they don’t list idioms.

 

[BobK]

Is it a kind of an idiom that is not listed in a dictionary?

It's not idiomatic among gteneral users. So I wouldn't expect to find it in one of the many lists to be found on the www; but it is a cliché in football reporting (at least I think it is - I don't read many football reports).

 

[milan2003_07]

Dictionaries define words—they don’t list idioms.

I think sometimes they do. I've seen that in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

 

[jutfrank]

It's quite normal for learner dictionaries to list idioms, yes, but normal dictionaries rarely if ever do.

 

[severussnape0x]

You can only find these kinds of idioms or lookup arbitrary phrase in dictionaries that used AI such as this one: [LINK REMOVED] But also should double check the explanation with other sources to make sure it is correct

not a teacher

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[Skrej]

@severussnape0x

Please remember to add the 'not a teacher' disclaimer, as you've been asked to do a few times now. I've added it this time, and removed the link. You're risking a potential ban if you continue to post links to commercial apps.