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1852, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Why Mr Sellum disposed of the horse ( chapter XIV in Works, volume 22):īrought him back, put him in the stall- low stable- got out of his reach, and then begun to whale him.( slang, transitive ) To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.thrasher whale/thresher whale ( Orcinus orca).sulfur-bottom whale ( Balaenoptera musculus).steeple-top whale ( Balaena mysticetus).sperm whale/ spermaceti whale ( Physeter catodon, syn.razorback whale ( Balaenoptera physalus).piked whale/pike whale ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Balaenoptera bonaerensis).minke whale ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Balaenoptera bonaerensis).

melon-headed whale ( Delphinapterus leucas).

humpback whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae}}.gray whale/ grey whale ( Eschrichtius robustus).caaing whale/ca' ing whale ( Globicephala melas).( gambling ) In a casino, a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.2013, Fred Holtby & Chris Lovie, ROWDY - THE STORY OF A POLICE DOG, → ISBN, page 105 They were having a whale of a time when a very stern looking shop assistant came over to tell them off.2006, June Skinner Sawyers, Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter, Penguin → ISBN Busley Crowther in The New York Times called it “a whale of a comedy” even though he couldn't tell the four musicians apart except for Ringo (“the big-nosed one”).Kayal, Museum of the City of New York, A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, Syracuse University Press → ISBN, page 54 My own father only wrote one poem in his life as far as I know, but it was a whale of a lyric, the kind you would give your whole life to write, which he did, but that is another story. ( figuratively, as 'whale of a _' ) Something, or someone, that is excellent.1947 May 19, John Chamberlain, “Will Clayton and his Problem”, in Life, page 120:īut when it comes to his business life and business career, Will Clayton is not as other men he is such a whale of a lot better that it suggests a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference.It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.

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1920 September, “A Reformed Free Lance” ( pseudonym), “ Doctoring a Sick Encyclopedia”, in The Writer, Volume XXXII, Number 9, page 131:.( figuratively ) Something, or someone, that is very large.It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.

The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent.

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