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
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
No tellin' whether you kin do a thing, or not, till you have a whack at it.
From Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods by Emerson, Alice B.
Piffle it may be, but I'm going to have a whack at it.
From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold
