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
I’d as soon have a whack from an honest shillaly as be pelted by thim threacherous lumps,” cried Dan Maloney.
From The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America by Friston, D. H.
Let me have a whack at it with this branch.
From Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm by Hawley, Mabel C.
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.
"I say, Thompson, did you see how he stuck on letting you have a whack at it?"
From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
