Jack-knife

But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.

The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.

He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks.

It took me hundreds of dives to master even the simple jackknife.

I have seen several jack-knives along that dangerous stretch of road.

Over at the stable, the men joke and drink whiskey, talk crops and play jack-knife ...

The cat jackknifed in the air and landed gracefully on its feet.

There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.

Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed the truck.

Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed.