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"Savvy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "though your harsh words have hurt me sore. I don't quite savvy it yet, but it's your affair, not mine. You're dealin' and bankin' the chips. And before now I've seen lots of well-meanin' bystanders get all mussed up from trying to horn into another man's pastime. At my age I'd ought ...
— Then I'll Come Back to You • Larry Evans
... much of a bluffer," observed Don judiciously. "What he says he means. What I don't savvy is why he hasn't found out already. Every hall master ...
— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour
... letters BACK from each letter to get the right ones. Take now such a cipher word as ULIOH. That means RIFLE. Count three letters back from each letter of ULIOH, and it'll spell RIFLE. You can make up a lot of despatches like that, just to have the thing look natural; savvy?" ...
— Blix • Frank Norris
... sir. He kept droppin' back. I swung alongside but I couldn't savvy his signals. He kept pointin' back at his tail. I couldn't see anything wrong, but there's a big 'drome at Vitry and he signaled me that he was goin' down. I hung around to watch his landin' and then hustled back to ...
— Aces Up • Covington Clarke
... to me," he said, quietly, but with studied persistence. "I don't mind confessing that I can't quite savvy its meaning. I didn't know that 'business transaction,' was a stock expression here, in the East, in connection with an engagement party. But I suppose I'm plumb ...
— The Last Woman • Ross Beeckman
... know 'at you're goin' to be missed; but I couldn't savvy that cook. He had one big tearin' time of it an' sluiced himself out with gin an' dug up his old profanity, an' then he simmered down an' just cooked himself into a new record. Gee! it was hard to separate from that mess table; ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason
... because you're such a weak little kid that I could break you in two isn't any reason why I should put up with any foolishness from you. I mean to see that you act proper, the way an honest kid ought to do. Savvy?" ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine
... the kit I didn't savvy until I put them on and surveyed the landscape out the viewport. A nearby dust drift I knew to be hot glowed green as death in the slightly smoky lenses. Wow! Those specs had Geiger counters beat a mile and ...
— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber |
Words linked to "Savvy" : get wise, catch on, brainstorm, digest, knowing, cotton on, grasping, comprehend, self-knowledge, get it, insight, hindsight, twig, realization, tumble, understand, intuit, hold, brainwave, figure, latch on, recognition, realisation, smattering, comprehension, appreciation, get onto |
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