jimjams
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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 A. W. Dimock
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 Herman Landon
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 Philip Gibbs
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