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where peaches hide their poison and racing teams win or lose in seconds
means The lowest or worst point of something; also the hard inner seeds of certain fruits, the depressions on a surface, or the area beside a racetrack where cars are serviced.
from From Old English 'pytt,' a hole or hollow dug in the ground, likely borrowed early from Latin 'puteus,' a well or pit. The fruit-stone sense traveled in from Dutch 'pit,' meaning kernel or core. The racing 'pits' grew from the same hole-in-the-ground idea — early track service areas were literally sunken trenches beside the course. And the slangy 'the pits' for the absolute worst? That's a 20th-century American figure of speech, the lowest place you can sink.
- cyanide cargo
- peach and cherry pits contain trace cyanide compounds
- pit stop
- elite F1 crews change four tires under three seconds
- tar archive
- La Brea pits preserved Ice Age bones for millennia
- mosh territory
- the pit is concert chaos with unspoken rules
- language slang
- calling something the pits means rock bottom
the great rift valley — massive geological depression in east africa, stretches 4,000 miles from syria to mozambique
kennecott copper mine — bingham canyon pit in utah, largest human-made excavation on earth, 0.75 miles deep
mel's pit barbecue — legendary smokehouse in dallas, texas, operating since 1941 with open fire pits