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dead loss a total loss. My investment was a dead loss. This car is a dead loss after the accident. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The goodly steed and the rich armour, equal to the full profit of my adventure with our Kirjath Jairam of Leicester--- there is a dead loss too---ay, a loss which swallows up the gains of a week; ay, of the space between two Sabaoths---and yet it may end better than I now think, for 'tis a good youth. Crisparkle, at a dead loss for anything else to say. Consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss - for as to sherry, my poor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then - and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown a head, the winner to spend five shillings. |
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