Helen Nguyen
2021-02-18 07:02
Win one for the Gipper American spoken language verb phrase
To try to achieve something or succeed in honour of somebody
Our goal is to achieve the world chess champion. Let's win one for the Gipper in honour of the nation!
This is the last project Emma is involved in before she retires, so let's win one for the Gipper!
She won one for the Gipper so her school has become famous recently.
Children or adults often say this phrase to get their friends to join in something, especially to jump into a swimming pool (pond, lake, etc.)
Act with more effort or enthusiasm
To motivate someone to do something better, more quickly or more passionately
Used to encourage someone to accept an invitation to somewhere.
The verb "win" should be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase derives from American football. Knute Rockne was the coach of Notre Dame team in the 1920s and George Gipp was his star player. The story goes that Gipp fell ill and when dying he asked Rockne to promise that, when things were going badly for the team, he should inspire them by asking them to 'win one for The Gipper'.
Ronald Reagan played the part of Gipp in the 1940 film Knute Rockne: All American. The screenplay has the line:
And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper"
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