Johnny raw
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It would be rather the act of a Johnny Raw, but then, men of ripe judgment and lifelong experience had been known to make similar mistakes.
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“Near a one as this Johnny Raw ’ll ever have again.
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He’s a Johnny Raw, and he’d been drawing sort of figures of eight all about that mopani patch for the last forty-eight hours.
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“Denham’s no kind of a Johnny Raw, girlie,” he said.
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You took me for a country Johnny Raw, with no more mother-wit or courage than a porridge-stick.
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