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carry me out

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carry me out

  1. (UK, informal) Exclamation of pretended astonishment on hearing news too good to be true, or a story too marvellous to be believed.
    Synonym: carry me out and bury me decently

References edit

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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