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It was there we learned to scatter the unfortunate natives with "imshi" or stronger, and what
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison
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It isn't a bad plan to "imshi" rather quickly when a Sikh platoon suggests your doing it.
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909
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Then I was cautioned gruffly in an unknown tongue and told to "imshi!"
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909
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And a popular rhyming chant on Tahrir Square played with high and low forms of Arabic, explaining to Mr. Mubarak that "irhal" means "imshi," a colloquial Egyptian word that might be best rendered in English as "beat it."
NYT > Home Page By BEN ZIMMER 2011
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