slam-bang
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Other items which Sir William traces far include: absquatulate, anxious seat, slam bang, cinch, lengthy, maverick, rain check, barn stormer, cowcatcher, calamity howler, greased lightning, rambunctious.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If ye do it will be good-by, 'Liza Jane, an' all of us goin' slam bang to Davy Jones' locker!"
From The Rover Boys on Land and Sea The Crusoes of Seven Islands by Stratemeyer, Edward
Of course, he may have thought that if he could make Reddy run right slam bang against that barrel it would stop Reddy long enough to give him a chance to get away.
From The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
Twick, thwack, slam, bang; click-click, click-click, click-click; chip, chop, higgledy-piggledy, crush, crowd, and helter-skelter.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.
"Well," said Abe cautiously, "I don't reckon he's right slam bang at home, but I lay he ain't fur off."
From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Harris, Joel Chandler
