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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 |
Maci | | MAY-see | English (Modern) |
June | | JOON | English |
Carpus | | KAHR-pəs (English) | Biblical, Biblical Latin |
August | | ['ɔ:gəst] | |
Pascuala | | pahs-KWAH-lah | Spanish |
Fanny | | FAN-ee (English) | English, French, Spanish |