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'Take Your Ball and Go Home'

Some kids were just bad losers.

I have often thought about this saying, so I Googled it and here is what the web site Stack Exchanged had to say.

Be careful using this as it's accusing the ball taker of being unreasonable, unsporting and childish. 

When I was a school kid many years ago, some kids were just bad losers. We would play baseball in the park, and if their team was losing, they would take their ball and go home. It's baseball's equivalent of picking up the Monopoly board and throwing it across the room.                                                                

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Not exactly, it's not as bad. (1) you can "take the ball home" only if it's yours (usually), while you can mess up the board regardless of the owner; (2) if you "take the ball home," players still can resume the game with another ball, maybe at a later time.

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