queer someone's pitch
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Meaning · English
to spoil or ruin someone's plans or efforts
Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt
làm hỏng hoặc phá hủy kế hoạch hoặc nỗ lực của ai đó
Machine-translated — suggest a fix
Literally: to disrupt a salesman's speech
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
We've been close friends for donkey's years and I know you better than to think you'd try to queer my pitch.
Remember the other month, it was in the papers, wasn't it? about them tearing the clothes off that one who tried to queer their pitch?
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-31; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “queer someone's pitch” mean?
to spoil or ruin someone's plans or efforts Literally: to disrupt a salesman's speech
Is “queer someone's pitch” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.