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But he must be the first if he would rank as some "potaters,"
Andiron Tales John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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This is also an excuse to show off your talents to their best advantage, claiming, like JB Priestley's Jess Oakroyd, that a yorkshire pudding is best "eaten by itsen and not mixed up wi' meat and potaters, all in a mush."
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Sure hope he doesn't fall off the ATV in front of the cameras -- that would make the whole "Dukakis in a tank" thing look like small potaters, now wouldn't it?
Firedoglake » Bolten’s Five Point Rehab Plan? A Whole Lotta… 2006
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Give out stuff — the union did — put potaters, beans, stuff like that that you use to cook.
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Mrs. Dawkins fried potaters and sausages and set 'em down in front of me Jim, with a jug of porter, and she and
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 Various
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Once when they was a having fried fish and potaters I crept out of my bed-room to the top of the stairs all in the dark, just so as to have a better lissen and a nearer smell.
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford
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Take your things right off now, and peel the potaters, and sift the meal for mush in the morning; an 'if Miss Walker's cow must be milked, what's to hender that
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Then she took up that tin pan and one of the potaters we'd jounced out of the cart.
Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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PATCH: There was jest one too many potaters in the pot.
Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates Julia McCune Flory 1906
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PATCH: Yesterday I was countin 'the potaters in the pot, sayin' ter meself: She loves me -- She don 't love me.
Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates Julia McCune Flory 1906
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