jimjams
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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
It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams.
From Time Magazine Archive
For one thing, Pinto, no cop goes into hysterics at sight of a dead body unless his conscience is giving him the jimjams.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Landon, Herman
He was a young fellow, one of "Kitchener's crowd," and told us frankly that he had the "jimjams" in this solitude of Ypres and "saw Germans" every time a rat jumped.
From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip
His stillness, Kittie—like—" "John Burkhardt would give me the razzle-dazzle jimjams overnight, he would.
From Gaslight Sonatas by Hurst, Fannie
