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ODTAA

ODTAA phrase: one damn thing after another.

Phrase

ODTAA

  1. (abbreviation, mildly, vulgar) one damn thing after another

Origin of ODTAA

The expression is reputed to have gone around the colonial clubs of the distant countries of the British Empire in the Victorian period. It came to fame with the publication of the book ODTAA in 1926 by John Masefield.

Questions about ODTAA

What does ODTAA mean?
ODTAA means one damn thing after another.
What part of speech is ODTAA?
ODTAA is a phrase.

Words near ODTAA in the dictionary

  1. odsfish
  2. odso
  3. odsooks
  4. Odstock
  5. ODT
  6. ODTAA
  7. ODTs
  8. ODU
  9. odulimomab
  10. odum
  11. odums

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