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

O, we’re camped in the sand in a foreign land Near the mighty Agus River, With the brush at our toes, the skeeters at our nose, The jimjams and the fever.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Gilbert, Paul T. (Paul Thomas)

Several whalers watched the procession until they got the jimjams by force of imagination, and when their bodies began to float down with the bottles, the down-river people got anxious.

From Over the Sliprails by Lawson, Henry

It is certain that gold standing alone is not; for its fluctuations in purchasing power have been so tremendous as again and again to throw the commercial world into jimjams.

From If Not Silver, What? by Bookwalter, John W.