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sawbones

[saw-bohnz] / ˈsɔˌboʊnz /


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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

Answers the sawbones: "Not unless your seeing-eye dog goes lame."

From Time Magazine Archive

In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I say, Fanshawe, there's a job for you at last, my festive sawbones."

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.




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