Idiom of the Day
prove to be (someone or something)
to be shown or discovered to be someone or something
The problem with the computer proved to be much easier to fix than we had thought.
Fact
During the baseball rivalries between the two major leagues in the 1890s, the Pittsburgh Nationals took advantage of a technicality and signed a player away from another club. The Nationals' president, J. Palmer O'Neill, was called J. Pirate O'Neill, and his club became the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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