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Joy also promoted the intensive method of salad cultivation known as cut-and-come-again, something market gardeners and anyone with a tiny garden will thank her for.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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It cost me seven shillings, and was a thick, bulky octavo with a cut-and-come-again expression about it, which was anything but disagreeable to me, for I hate your flimsy publications.
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Battledore had reminded him that there was “a deuced deal of cut-and-come-again in a hundred and twenty thousand pounds.”
Ayala's Angel 2004
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Battledore had reminded him that there was "a deuced deal of cut-and-come-again in a hundred and twenty thousand pounds."
Ayala's Angel 1993
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They are as good as any men I have seen in Africa, full of ginger, good horsemen, wear-and-tear, cut-and-come-again sort of men.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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"We have here before us a dreeping roast," said he, "here is cut-and-come-again for all."
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They may be a seasoning to some, a solid cut-and-come-again to others, but certainly not to the majority.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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It was always cut-and-come-again when you were converting Dick.
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Battledore had reminded him that there was "a deuced deal of cut-and-come-again in a hundred and twenty thousand pounds."
Ayala's Angel 1881
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"We have here before us a dreeping roast," said he, "here is cut-and-come-again for all."
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
chained_bear commented on the word cut-and-come-again
"...his mind drifted back to the days when he too had belonged on the forecastle, when he too had danced to the fiddle and fife, his upper half grave and still, his lower flying -- heel and toe, the double harman, the cut-and-come-again, the Kentish knock, the Bob's-a-dying and its variations in quick succession and (if the weather was reasonably calm) in perfect time."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 169
February 13, 2008