jimjams

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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

It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I’m due to have some bad dreams to-night anyhow, on the strength of this snake-killin’, but it’d give me the jumpin’ jimjams if I had to sleep next to them remains.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

He was a young fellow, one of "Kitchener's crowd," and told us frankly that he had the "jimjams" in this solitude of Ypres and "saw Germans" every time a rat jumped.

From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip