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  • Jackie, by contrast, has yet to master his self-destructive impulses, but at least he knows that the point of getting sober is not to become more efficient at taking advantage of other people: Your—whaddyacallit—your world view?

    Don't Let its Name Be a Curse Terry Teachout 2011

  • Herbert always thought it was an oxy-whaddyacallit?

    Warning Signs White, Stephen, 1951- 2002

  • Herbert always thought it was an oxy-whaddyacallit?

    Warning Signs White, Stephen, 1951- 2002

  • That to me is a very, very whaddyacallit—a lucky happening.

    Tessie and Pearlie JOY HOROWITZ 1996

  • It's like that other book you were just reading, that whaddyacallit about the mouse?

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lisa Catherine Harper 2011

  • If Mike were even slightly more removed from nature, his feelings, and his family, he’d also be manning a CB radio “Ten-four, good buddy, looks like the missus got herself a killer case a that, whaddyacallit, existential ennui!”

    My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

  • That’s like one o’ them, whaddyacallit, “thought experiments”, right?

    Firedoglake » The Insider 2006

  • That’s like one o’ them, whaddyacallit, “thought experiments”, right?

    Firedoglake » The Insider 2006

  • Herbert always thought it was an oxy — whaddyacallit?”

    Warning Signs White, Stephen, 1951- 2002

  • “I distinctly remember telling you I went to his wedding because he’d been married to my mother briefly and his relatives were boycotting it so I was there as whaddyacallit—as someone to sit on the groom’s side.”

    Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995

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