jimjams
Example Sentences
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It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams.
From Time Magazine Archive
To sidewalk farmers, who suppose that a ridgeling is the peak in a barn roof and a freemartin a species of swallow,*some of Gus's outbuildings and his hog runs might well give the jimjams.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Was it jimjams, or only a bad nightmare?"
From Dick in the Everglades by Dimock, A. W.
For one thing, Pinto, no cop goes into hysterics at sight of a dead body unless his conscience is giving him the jimjams.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Landon, Herman
If you do," drawled Shotwell to Fair, as they hurried down into the lamplight, "you'll think the devil's inside of her with the jimjams.
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.
