Parthian shot
Example Sentences
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It’s his last one, his peace-out, his Parthian shot, his doch-an-dorrach.
From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2016
It’s his last one, his peace-out, his Parthian shot, his doch-an-dorrach.
From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2016
Hugh Johnson, letting go a Parthian shot at Miss Thompson* in his own column, made it clear that he was quitting the field because he could not handle both his column and his air assignment.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no answer to the old man's Parthian shot: "If you live."
From Time Magazine Archive
“It was bought at Trimmer and Company’s, Grand Street side, Bobby,” she informed him, and with this Parthian shot she went back through the up-stairs hall, laughing.
From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by Flagg, James Montgomery
