(1) Her parents were creative and left-field and wanted Polly to become a singer or a truck driver.

(2) The left-field line ump stayed out of it.

(3) Left fielder Mark Whiten reached out and poked a tailing fastball over the left-field wall in the second.

(4) Leftfield specializes in open solutions and a key reason for this is the cost effectiveness this approach delivers, and our aim is to spread the word throughout the UK's Enterprise companies.

(5) A fierce storm came out of leftfield and surprised everyone.

(6) "Grenade" was a word used widely by investors and other EU governments, such as fellow bailout recipient Ireland, to describe Monday's leftfield shock. Markets reacted accordingly.