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Swell Foop is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-fifth book of the Xanth series. [1]The title is taken from a spoonerism for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," famously (but not first) [2] spoken by the tongue-twisted Peter Sellers character in the 1964 movie The Pink Panther.
In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would "on a certain day...rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop." He requested an increase in his budget to $2,000,000 from $1,500,000 to support his investigations of radicals, but Congress limited the increase ...
The Green Ace (1950) [also published as "At One Fell Swoop"] Nipped in the Bud (1951) [also published as "Trap for a Redhead"] Cold Poison (1954) [also published as "Exit Laughing"] Hildegarde Withers Makes the Scene (1969), completed by Fletcher Flora after Palmer's death
Cafe chalkboard advertising a "pre fixed" menu, an eggcorn of the French prix fixe (fixed price). An eggcorn is the alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, [1] creating a new phrase which is plausible when used in the same context. [2]
SpaceX launches two moon missions in one fell swoop. Jackie Wattles, CNN ... second attempt to send one of its Hakuto-R spacecraft to the moon. ... that in 4K-by-4K high-definition video and share ...
all, 'at one fell swoop,'—can find no protection for property, liberty or life, except in secret association. Not in such association to commit follies and outrages; but for mutual, peaceful, lawful, self-defence.
one Gorinchem pound (Gorinchems pond) was 466 grams, one Utrecht heavy pound (Utrechts zwaar pond) was 497.8 grams. After the metric system was introduced in 1816, the word pond continued to be used, but for 1 kilogram. This doubling in size of the pond in one fell swoop created a good deal of confusion.
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