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
"You fetch home reports like that, and you'n me will have a whack at Old Yellowfoot sure after we're done with the grouse."
From The Black Fawn by Kjelgaard, James Arthur
"Just you let me have a whack at 'em!"
From Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun by Hawley, Mabel C.
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.
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.
