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Psmith, the man about town who revelled in such phrases as "last night's rannygazoo" several years before Bertie Wooster began to bounce them off the silver-plated English of Jeeves.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Psmith, the man about town who revelled in such phrases as "last night's rannygazoo" several years before Bertie Wooster began to bounce them off the silver-plated English of Jeeves.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
kingrat47 commented on the word rannygazoo
The run-around, nonsense: "Don't give me any rannygazoo." P.G. Wodehouse era slang.
December 10, 2006
lawyerina commented on the word rannygazoo
In our family, the rannygazoo was equivalent of the "bum's rush" - being unceremoniously escorted out of someplace.
February 11, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word rannygazoo
"'What's to do here?' he demanded. 'What are ye doing to that child?'
'Saving his life,' I replied tartly. I was still vibrating from the intensity of the surgery, and in no mood for rannygazoo."
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 438
February 1, 2010