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Idioms and Phrases
Also, watch my smoke . See how fast I am, or how quickly I'll succeed. For example, I'm going to turn that investment into my first million, just you watch my dust , or I'll make it, just watch my smoke . The first term alludes to the dust raised by a galloping horse, the second to the smoke generated by an engine. [ Colloquial ; late 1800s]Discover More
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Well, laugh, doggone it, but you watch my dust–I’m going to hang his hide on the fence!â€
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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