seventh-inning stretch

[ sev-uhnth-in-ing, -in- ]

/ ˈsɛv ənθˌɪn ɪŋ, -ˈɪn- /

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noun

Baseball. a point in the game when spectators rise from their seats to relax by stretching their legs, usually after six and one-half innings.

any point or period of pause, rest, reconsideration, or the like.

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Origin of seventh-inning stretch

First recorded in 1955–60

The plan is to stretch it out as long as possible, then probably forget about it, and then suddenly remember it.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS|Marlow Stern|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Rick would cut together five years worth of work, add the sixth, then recut six years worth of work, add the seventh, and so on.
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange|Marlow Stern|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So she began trying out the beds, but none of them suited her until she found that the seventh one was just right.
In New Brothers Grimm 'Snow White', The Prince Doesn't Save Her|The Brothers Grimm|November 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And he was followed by each one of them until the seventh dwarf looked at his bed and saw Little Snow White lying there asleep.
In New Brothers Grimm 'Snow White', The Prince Doesn't Save Her|The Brothers Grimm|November 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Even though it was a school day—about fifth period, I calculated—the arcade was filled with seventh graders.
‘Asteroids’ & The Dawn of the Gamer Age|David Owen|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
A long stretch of smooth ice followed, over which he glided with ever-increasing speed.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
It will be no more monotonous than having one's seventh birthday or falling in love for the first time.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The hut was barely high enough to let him sit up, and long enough to let him lie down—not to stretch out.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
He had perhaps placed in her hand the weapon that should hasten his own defeat, stretch him bleeding on the sand.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood