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
"You fetch home reports like that, and you'n me will have a whack at Old Yellowfoot sure after we're done with the grouse."
From The Black Fawn by Kjelgaard, James Arthur
No tellin' whether you kin do a thing, or not, till you have a whack at it.
From Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods by Emerson, Alice B.
However, several people had been saying that Stigler had got me "on the run," so I decided it was up to me to have a whack at him.
From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Whitehead, Harold
Piffle it may be, but I'm going to have a whack at it.
From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold
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