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have a whack at

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Joe said, “Hey, man, that’s a pretty nice-sounding guitar, lemme have a whack at it.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Come along, I say, Professor, an' let's have a whack at them piles o' gold.

From The Aztec Treasure-House by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)

"I say, Thompson, did you see how he stuck on letting you have a whack at it?"

From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

I would have a whack at the place by day.

From The Harbor by Poole, Ernest

Let me have a whack at it with this branch.

From Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm by Hawley, Mabel C.