Re: all eyes were at

John Varela wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:16:25 -0500, Mike Lyle wrote
(in article <4850645f-9709-43c8-9481-42309c91e739@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

A mistake, and rather a silly one, I reckon. But what about "back to back"? Unless the second game in some mysterious way started at the end and was played until the beginning, it's nonsense.

What's wrong with "back-to-back Cup victories"? To me, back-to-back is a synonym for "one right after the other".

I'd agree - it means not just consecutive, but contiguous. I suspect the author simply meant "two matches one after the other".
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