Ball-park Figure

What is Ball-park Figure?


1.

a number that is near the total; approximate figure

Fifty is a ball-park figure. It's close to our class size.

2.

An annoying, grossly over-used term that dumb idiots think will make them sound cool if they use.

Some idiot called me at the office asking me to give him a "ball-park figure" on a divorce. I thought "WTF? Since when do divorce cases have anything to do with a baseball game?"


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