have a stab
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Let's have a stab in the dark, then, at who might follow in Jonathan Ross's footsteps as this year's "big dog", and who, like singer Cat Burns, could fly under the radar?
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
When he did have a stab at something arty, it came out mangled: he played the poet Paul Verlaine opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as Rimbaud in Total Eclipse.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2017
Twenty minutes later, on the monorail back to the terminal, I decided to have a stab at getting on the flight.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2015
Or perhaps Hawking did have a stab at that last one and ran out of blackboard.
From BBC ● May 30, 2014
Yes, that was James's dream—to have a stab at the literary life.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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