on one's own bat

on one's own bat

English

Prepositional phrase

on one's own bat

1. Alternative form of off one's own bat
   • 1977, Lennard Bickel, Mawson's Will: The Greatest Survival Story Ever Written (page 37)

     I think you should go on your own bat—and I can get you some cash support.

   • 2003, Brian Penton, The Inheritors (page 149)

     Have ye done it on your own bat or did he kick you out?

Translations

of one's own accord — see of one's own accord

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary