tucker out
Example Sentences
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He’s worked me like a horse since I’ve been here, and that, on top of spraining my arm, sort of took the tucker out of me.
From Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery by Stokes, Roy Eliot
"Dawg 'ud be apt to tucker out in desert travel," agreed Sandy.
From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)
That run took all the tucker out of 'em.
From The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays by Hope, Laura Lee
But I get me tucker out of it, an' me bitter 'baccy, an' that; an'---well, it's "near-enough," an' so I stick at it.'
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)
"Only just a scratch, but it seems like it took th' tucker out o' me mighty suddin," gasped the old man.
From The Boy Ranchers on the Trail by Baker, Willard F.
