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
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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
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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
His stillness, Kittie—like—" "John Burkhardt would give me the razzle-dazzle jimjams overnight, he would.
From Gaslight Sonatas by Hurst, Fannie
But in the play you almost have a set of love jimjams on account of that woman, and let her reform you, and all that sort of thing.
From Bolanyo by Read, Opie Percival
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.