have a whack

"Darling I wish you the best I can -- that your anxiety will be at an end before you get this -- with the best news. Which will also be the quickest. It is 50 to 1 against us but we'll have a whack yet & do ourselves proud. Great love to you. Ever your loving, George."

“Darling I wish you the best I can — that your anxiety will be at an end before you get this — with the best news,” he wrote to Ruth Mallory on May 27, 1924 from Camp I. “It is 50 to 1 against us but we’ll have a whack yet & do ourselves proud.”

Abraham was probably within his rights to take control and have a whack, but he seemed happy to defer to Werner, that indecision costing Chelsea and allowing Palace to clear.

“That would be pretty much it. I would hope that it would encourage some little punk to have a whack.”

Domantas Sabonis, the other acquisition, is the progeny of Hall of Famer Arvydas and he passes like it — a son presuming he owns his own father’s double-aged strength before dad lets him have a whack at the circular saw.