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Hit

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A great hit. A piece of good luck. From the game hit and miss, or the game of backgammon, where “two hits equal a gammon.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Hippolytus
Hippomenes
Hippothadee
Hired Grief
Hiren
Hispania
Historicus
History
History of Croyland Abbey
Histrionic
Hit
Hit it Off (To)
Hit the Nail on the Head (To)
Hitch
Hivites
Hoâng
Hoare
Hoarstone
Hoax
Hob
Hob and Nob

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