crying Uncle
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Before long, the unrelieved barrage of whipcracks and clippity-clops jammed WWDC's switchboard with phone calls from desperate night owls crying "Uncle."
From Time Magazine Archive
The first he knew about the faro game was when his kinsman rushed up agitatedly, crying: "Uncle Ed, we've been robbed!"
From Time Magazine Archive
