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
And Tony, we’ll get Doctor Field to let us have a whack at the transmitter and you can talk to your friend, or telegraph your dad and have him come up and radiophone Marconi.
From Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In by Whipple, Wayne
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)
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 Durham, Victor G.
"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 Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)
