have a whack
Example Sentences
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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
“Yes, let ‘Sister’ Davis have a whack at it too,” urged George Bland.
From Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner by Chadwick, Lester
Piffle it may be, but I'm going to have a whack at it.
From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold
No tellin' whether you kin do a thing, or not, till you have a whack at it.
From Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods by Emerson, Alice B.
"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
