have one's name taken

verb

Etymology

When receiving a yellow card in some sports, one's name is recorded in the referee's booklet.

Definitions

  1. 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

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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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