Akimoto Yuki answered question 12/9/2011 What does right off the bat originate? Real answer please stupid english project! Right off the bat, Informal. At once; without delay------The Oxford English Dictionary dates this term to 1914 in Maclean's, a Canadian magazine. An older term, "hot from the bat" dates to the 1888 playMeisterschaft by Mark Twain.[98]
