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one swell foop

noun

Definitions

  1. Spoonerism of one fell swoop.

    • Only one meal a week is required, thus doing away, at one swell foop, with cooks, scullions, stewards, butlers, waiters and other tip-extractors.
    • You have to pull it in, in one swell foop!.
    • If I can’t quite see how to do it all in one swell foop, I fall back on the principles of lazy programming: [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for one swell foop. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA