Meaning of like a whitehead | Babel Free

Definitions

Adverb. [C1]

Examples

“I told you a year ago that when the occasion required he ran at the enemy like a “Whitehead,” and I told you that like the rest of us, when occasion required, he ran the other way like a “Whitehead ;” but he was not like the King of France, who, with thirty thousand men marched up to the top of the hill, and then marched down again.”

“Holy Smokes! I was scairt. Then the train hit a curve so fast I had to fight like a whitehead to keep her from pitchin' me out.”

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