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
Hal, my boy, we're simply going to shove ourselves into jobs in that boatyard, and we're going to have a whack at the whole game of building and fitting out a submarine torpedo boat.
From The Submarine Boys on Duty Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat by Victor G. Durham
Let me have a whack at it with this branch.
From Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm by Mabel C. Hawley
"The Austrians will have a whack at us before that," said Hal positively.
From The Boy Allies in Great Peril Or, With the Italian Army in the Alps by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
Come along, I say, Professor, an' let's have a whack at them piles o' gold.
From The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
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