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have a whack





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Joe said, “Hey, man, that’s a pretty nice-sounding guitar, lemme have a whack at it.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

"You fetch home reports like that, and you'n me will have a whack at Old Yellowfoot sure after we're done with the grouse."

From The Black Fawn by Kjelgaard, James Arthur

However, several people had been saying that Stigler had got me "on the run," so I decided it was up to me to have a whack at him.

From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Whitehead, Harold

Come along, I say, Professor, an' let's have a whack at them piles o' gold.

From The Aztec Treasure-House by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)

"I say, Thompson, did you see how he stuck on letting you have a whack at it?"

From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove




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