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by guess and by gosh and by guess and by golly

Rur. by estimating; without careful planning. Jane: Did you have a plan for putting up that toolshed? Tom: Nope, we just sort of did it by guess and by gosh. Grandma always made dresses by guess and by golly, without using a pattern, and they always turned out just fine.

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His Grandmamma will stay on the throne despite apparently selling gollies in her shop at Sandringham. THATCHER NOT FAMOUS ENOUGH TO KEEP JOB by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Byline: Pam Perry I TOTALLY agree with the letter (ECHO, Oct 17) re: bring back gollies. Letter: Short points by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) Byline: Juliet Eysenck GOLLIES sold in a North-East high street have sparked a race row. Disgust as shop sells gollies by The Journal (Newcastle, England)			God willing God willing and the creek don't rise God's gift God's in his heaven; all's right with the world godmother goes goes for goes to show goes without saying goggle goggle at going going great guns going my way? going on going rate Going strong going to tell going, going, gone gol dern gold gold mine of information golden golden handcuffs golden opportunity gollies golly gone gone but not forgotten gone for a burton gone goose gone on gone to meet maker gone with the wind goner good good and good and proper good as done good as gold good as new good bet Good Book good die young good egg Good enough good enough for Good fences make good neighbors good for good for what ails you Good for you!			Golightly, Holly Golikov, Filipp Golikov, Filipp Ivanovich Golikov, Ivan Golikov, Ivan Ivanovich GOLIP Golisano Institute for Sustainability Golitsyn family Golitsyn Layer Golitsyn, Boris Golitsyn, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Vasily, Prince Golitsyno Golitsyns Golive Golkar Goll Göll Göll Goll (Valkyrie) Goll (Valkyrie) Goll, Jaroslav Gollan, John Gollancz Gollancz, Sir Hermann Gollancz, Sir Victor gollies golliwog golliwogg golliwogs gollop Gollop-Wolfgang Complex golloped golloping gollops Gollum Gollum Gollum Bites Off Frodo's Finger and Falls Into Mount Doom golly golly Gollywog Gollywogg Golm Metabolome Database Golmovskii Golo Golobutskii, Vladimir Golobutskii, Vladimir Alekseevich Goloby Goloded, Nikolai Goloded, Nikolai Matveevich Golodnaia Guba Golodnaia Steppe Golodnyi, Mikhail

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