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- before can say Jack Robinson
before can say Jack Robinson
before you can say Jack Robinson
(old-fashioned) if you say that something happens before you can say Jack Robinson, it happens very suddenly I offered her a chocolate but before you could say Jack Robinson she'd eaten half the box.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Hajni | | HAWY-nee | Hungarian |
Iuvenalis | | - | Ancient Roman |
Dirk | | DIRK (Dutch), DEERK (German), DURK (English) | Dutch, German, English |
Ahti | | AHH-tee (Finnish) | Finnish, Finnish Mythology |
Dana (4) | | - | Persian, Arabic |
Jathbiyya | | - | Arabic |