Foul Ball, you

Foul Ball, you
   This is used by an American prostitute to a male client who is cheating her in The Pleasure Man, by Mae West. The vocative is not a standard one, but an American hearer would immediately understand the reference to a foul ball in baseball. It is a ball hit into foul territory and therefore useless.

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