have one's name taken
verbEtymology
When receiving a yellow card in some sports, one's name is recorded in the referee's booklet.
Definitions
To receive a yellow card.
- Healy’s first act was to crudely wipe out Forrest on the touchline. He saw yellow when it could have been red. Lafferty then had his name taken for a late one on Adam Matthews.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for have one's name taken. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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