Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Off the right line; obliquely; wrong.
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- adverb Alternative spelling of
agley .
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Examples
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The funny thing is eight years ago Lieberman was your standard bearer; four years ago, the leadership of the Democratic Party was all aglee thinking about a Kerry/McCain ticket.
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But like everything, the best laid plans of mice and men oft gang aglee.
Charles Karel Bouley: Grammy Goes Pop And Never Comes Back 2009
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In which the best-laid plans of guy and sister completely go aglee.
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In which the best-laid plans of guy and sister completely go aglee.
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Well the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee, as someone once said, and I'd reckoned without the huge thunderstorm that left me stranded at Silverfish for longer than I'd intended.
Archive 2005-11-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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Well the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee, as someone once said, and I'd reckoned without the huge thunderstorm that left me stranded at Silverfish for longer than I'd intended.
Rain and Readings Sharon Bakar 2005
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“The best laid schemes of men and mice gang aft aglee.”
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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_The best laid plans/o 'mice and men/aft gang aglee_.
The Emerald Triangle Archer, Miles 2003
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Tell me honestly, are you grieved because God has been offended, or because all your fine plans have _ganged aglee?
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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There we stood like two sumphs, (as Hogg calls those who are ganging a bit aglee in their wits) gaping and staring at each other with a look which said, why did not _you_ shoot?
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 Various
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