He taunted the Knicks instead with hanging jumpers, impossible fadeaways and layups in traffic.

Oh, Are you thereabouts, Sir; then I ſmell a Rat Ifaith; but I'll ſay nothing.

1947, Adelaide Evangeline Evenson, The Intestinal Flora of Laboratory Animals and Its Modification by Diet and Drugs:

Would've tore your head clean off, Dudley was bellowing. "Would've snapped it off your neck like wet toilet paper[…]