stand the gaff

It takes a special kind of horse to get there, to stand the gaff.

He was just wise enough to know that you couldn't stand the gaff.

In another two years we can put him into reasonable shape again, but his nervous system just couldn't stand the gaff.

Hadley is a capable chap, but I don't know if he could stand the gaff.

That screen wasn't stout enough to stand the gaff of gunfire.

That was their way of standing the gaff.

She stood the gaff pretty well all afternoon.

There's only one guy willin' to stand the gaff.

He expected the mirror to crack along with caving walls, but it stood the gaff.

Those sort of clothes wouldn't stand the gaff.

Their tires had no treads, but they were stout enough to stand the gaff.

Madvig chuckled and raised his head to say: "If you can stand the gaff."

He met up with The Shadow, and he couldn't stand the gaff.

They won't stand the gaff, sir," he returned. "

If you can't stand the gaff, we'll jest have to ship you straight back to earth!

And you feel you can't stand the gaff.

Couldn't stand the gaff in the Big House.

He blasted shots at the rear tires of the police car, and, fortunately, they didn't stand the gaff.

Ingenious, this new scheme of Hobgood's, but it just wouldn't stand the gaff.

At flank speed, weve got to stand the gaff forwhat?

If you think you can stand the gaff.

Maybe you are more experienced in this hotel business than I am, but I couldn't stand the gaff.

Mur is quite recovered but I don't think Dip has stood the gaff as well.

A fiddle had to stand the gaff.

He'd be willing to kill privately, or in an open fray, but he couldn't stand the gaff that an outright murderer would accept.