killer-diller

Holy moly is a rhyming compound cf. killer-diller, legal eagle, etc., and is maybe an euphemism for holy Moses that's used as an oath.

OOHING AND AAHING IN THE DOLDRUMS WITHOUT TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION News from Mad Plato 2008

My Pops, I have to say, was a good-looking man, a little heavy, about six foot two like Gilberto, but very immense and with these dark, killer-diller soulful eyes.

Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

My Pops, I have to say, was a good-looking man, a little heavy, about six foot two like Gilberto, but very immense and with these dark, killer-diller soulful eyes.

Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

This week Adams, 52, will release "The John Adams Earbox," a richly satisfying 10-CD retrospective including the killer-diller orchestral fanfare "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" (1986) and the heroic-ironic opera "Nixon in China" (1987).

Up From Minimalism 2008

My Pops, I have to say, was a good-looking man, a little heavy, about six foot two like Gilberto, but very immense and with these dark, killer-diller soulful eyes.

Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

Holy moly is a rhyming compound cf. killer-diller, legal eagle, etc., and is maybe an euphemism for holy Moses that's used as an oath.

Archive 2008-10-01 News from Mad Plato 2008

But toward the end of this longish evening, Benny Goodman found a way to merge these opposing visions of jazz via "Sing Sing Sing" -- the most raucous and elaborate of his big band's signature items, a "killer-diller" that had evolved into an epic.

When Carnegie Hall Swung 2008

There are similar processes in many other languages, like the English example where you reduplicate the word but change the initial of the reduplicated form to d- killer-diller, super-duper, etc.

languagehat.com: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHINESE. 2004

I love the film itself and the high-def digital photography is sure to look killer-diller.

Hollywood Elsewhere 2009

Everywhere I went, I saw people dashing hither and thither, waving their pooper-scoopers and chasing pell-mell after their dogs, with man and beast alike running through traffic lights and instigating numerous killer-diller fender-benders.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4 1981