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- interjection poetic Expresses
flustering andanger .
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Examples
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Uefa, Fifa, fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman.
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Well, we shall see-as we shall see whether beanstalks do grow to the sky and whether "fee-fi-fo-fum" in fact translates as "I told you so."
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Well, we shall see-as we shall see whether beanstalks do grow to the sky and whether "fee-fi-fo-fum" in fact translates as "I told you so."
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Jehovah of the Old Testament the fee-fi-fo-fum ogre of popular imagination, that tyrant of the heavens whose unfairness in choosing
Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 Israel Zangwill 1895
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I then get into the fee-fi-fo-fum bit a few times, complete with British accent and the blood of an Englishman.
Stephanie Klein's Greek Tragedy Stephanie Klein 2010
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Jack wasn't there, luckily, and the ogre's wife said: "There you are again with your fee-fi-fo-fum.
English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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But Jack wasn't there, luckily, and the ogre 's wife said, "There you are again with your fee-fi-fo-fum.
NASIOC FriedIceCream 2010
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