Editing Baize (section)

==Idioms and catchphrases==
* "Let's get the boys on the baize!" has been a [[catchphrase]] of [[BBC Television|BBC TV]] [[snooker]] presenter [[Rob Walker (sports announcer)|Rob Walker]] since 2008.<ref>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Reason |date=4 May 2008 |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/snooker/2299341/Ronnie-OSullivan-greater-than-Tiger-Woods.html |title=Ronnie O'Sullivan greater than Tiger Woods |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref>
* At one time, "the green baize door" (a door to which cloth had been tacked to deaden noise) in a house separated the servants' quarters from the family's living quarters;<ref>{{cite book |first=Graham |last=Greene |author-link=Graham Greene |title=The Basement Room |publisher=Penguin |date=1976 |orig-year=1935 |page=125<!--Specific page number in a specific old edition not identified by ISBN. It would be better to find and re-cite this material in a newer edition that can be ISBN-identified.-->}} Also republished as ''The Fallen Idol''.</ref> hence the phrase's usage as a [[Metonymy|metonym]] for [[Domestic servant|domestic service]]. Moving men in the children's book ''[[The Railway Children]]'' wore green baize aprons.