man jack

British

noun

informal a single individual (in the phrases every man jack, no man jack )

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Maybe they read her letters, maybe they only looked at the postmark, but to a man jack they all replied: “Send us your next letter after Papa is dead!”

From Literature

And I have not the faintest hesitation in expressing my firm belief that every man jack of us will do his duty to King and country, and uphold the traditions of H.M.S.

From Project Gutenberg

Nando said not a man jack of 'em knows it but himself.

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“Besides, every man jack of us is going to have a two-arm job all the way.”

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We think not, and we have reason to believe that every man jack out of the forty thousand would have agreed with us.

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