presto change-o
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See also: presto changeo
Interjection
- (informal) Alternative form of presto chango
- 1975, Laura Keane Zametkin Hobson, Consenting Adult, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 85:
- "It doesn't just go one, two, three, presto, change-o, you're cured."
- 1984, Audrey Wood, Presto Change-O, Child's Play, →ISBN:
- 2001, Karen Kellaher, Writing Skills Made Fun: Parts of Speech, →ISBN, page 13:
- Then tell them to read the sentence on the front of each flap, open the flap, and read the sentence inside. Presto Change-o! Common nouns are transformed into proper nouns, right before nouns, right before their eyes!
- 2006, Peter Blauner, Slipping Into Darkness: A Novel, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 3:
- But then that little psychopath Willie Bosket murdered a couple of subway riders for the hell of it when he was fifteen and -- presto change-o! -- a new law was born.
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