Meaning of fer-instance | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

““If it ain’t already coming at you, you bluff. Stand⟳ still, make⟳ loud noises. Try⟳ to look⟳ bigger, like⟳ maybe standing on a stump or opening a big umbrella.” / “Gee! I forgot my umbrella! Can I borrow yours?” / “Naw, I haven’t got one either. That was just a fer-instance. What they use⟳ to scare⟳ off polar bears is firecrackers and air horns.””

“To give⟳ you a fer-instance, it was whispered to me not five minutes before you come⟳ in here that the same thieves did over the wine warehouse as did the brewery.”

“Take⟳ one scene, as a fer-instance: Goldman’s script very carefully sets up, via Westley’s explanation for Vizzini, the elusive qualities of iocane powder, the perfect poison—colorless, odorless, tasteless, impossible to detect⟳, and, as we witness, almost instantly fatal.”

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