jimjams
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It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To sidewalk farmers, who suppose that a ridgeling is the peak in a barn roof and a freemartin a species of swallow,*some of Gus's outbuildings and his hog runs might well give the jimjams.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Was it jimjams, or only a bad nightmare?"
From Dick in the Everglades by Dimock, A. W.
It is certain that gold standing alone is not; for its fluctuations in purchasing power have been so tremendous as again and again to throw the commercial world into jimjams.
From If Not Silver, What? by Bookwalter, John W.
If you do," drawled Shotwell to Fair, as they hurried down into the lamplight, "you'll think the devil's inside of her with the jimjams.
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.