handy-dandy

How to use handy-dandy in a sentence

• Here we have the exact game of handy-dandy, which is, after all, the simple form of the odd and even of children.

  Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)

• But the young fellow holds out; you cannot play handy-dandy with a king's crown, your Majesty!

  History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VIII. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle

• Shall a lay-brother of Malvern stoop to play handy-dandy for favours?

  Long Will | Florence Converse

• Lottie is always trying out some new handy-dandy little kitchen helper compound, so she hefted up quite an armload.

  The Water Eater | Win Marks

• handy-dandy, which is the Magistrate and which is the Thief?

  Visions and Revisions | John Cowper Powys