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on spec

if you do something on spec, you do it without being sure that you will get what you want. You could always turn up at the airport on spec and see what's available on the day. I sent in an article on spec and they published it.

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And of them Dodson and Foggs, as does these sort o' things on spec,' continued Mr. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

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