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- interjection Alternative spelling of
tallyho . - noun Alternative spelling of
tallyho . - verb Alternative spelling of
tallyho .
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Examples
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Paula, there, with the reins of four slashing horses in her hands, her foot on the brake, swinging tally-ho along a mountain road.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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For the first time alone since he had seen the tally-ho off, Dick stepped out on his sleeping porch to the row of barometers and thermometers on the wall.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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The unspoken implication was that their lordships would be in hunting pink, up on their horses, crying "tally-ho" before the poor beast had got past the Pugin tea room.
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If you think U.K. universities are Leftist, just wait and tally-ho see the universities in the U.S.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Some of you saw the procession go up Broad Street, I was away, but the family wrote to me that the tally-ho coach with Lieutenant Hobson upon it stopped right at the front door and the people shouted, “Hurrah for Hobson!” and if I had been there I would have yelled too, because he deserves much more of his country than he has ever received.
Acres of Diamonds 2008
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“High, tally-ho in the morning!” away we all went at a hard gallop down-hill.
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And when he hallooed ... it was something like a tally-ho in the forest.
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Their effort finally ended with his trying to run down a tally-ho which was empty inside and had a party of Harvard students riding atop.
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They had only to stand round the forest like hounds waiting for the fox to break cover, then it would be view tally-ho over the radio intercoms and the hunt would be on again.
Dead Cert Francis, Dick 1962
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When he appeared -- and he usually did appear in a hurry -- we gave him a couple of minutes 'start and then tally-ho! and away after him over the plain.
With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett
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