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have had a good innings Definition


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innings
noun
    1. cricket.
      A team's or a player's turn at batting;
    1b. The runs scored during such a turn;
    1c. The quality of batting during it.
    (Brit)
    2. A period during which someone has an opportunity for action or achievement.
Idiom: have had a good innings
    colloq
    To have lived a long and eventful life. See also inning.
Etymology: 18c; Anglo-Saxon as innung, meaning ‘contents', ie what is put in.



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