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for cryin' out loud en · INTJ

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  1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling) Pronunciation spelling of for crying out loud.
    • Then, why not pray to the trees, for cryin' out loud, and next, the dumb birds? 1999, Tom Hanley, Flyboys, page 25:
    • "For cryin' out loud!" from Hamilton. "Look Doc, that damned calf is still alive." 1940, Richard John Dinsmore, "Hoss" Doctor, page 302:
    • ‘I knew yeh weren’t gettin’ yer letters but I never thought yeh wouldn’t even know abou’ Hogwarts, fer cryin’ out loud!’ 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, section IV: