honest-to-Hannah

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honest-to-Hannah (not comparable)

  1. Euphemistic variant of honest-to-God; true, genuine.
    • 1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 18, column 1:
      And what they added up to was curtains - for him. He'd really stepped into something this time: a Grade-A jam, an honest-to-Hannah, double-distilled frammis.