do-dad

Definitions

Examples

• My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.

• His wife passed away and they had kids, and he wanted to focus on being a dad so he just stopped to raise his kids.

• The fear of…Dad, of the war…yes, that…but something else…the fear that life is nor being lived right here now.

• My dad had worked for a while as a ranch hand, and his “Open Road” was a remnant of those days.

• The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work.

• The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.

• "Dad and Hans Rutter, as you know, weren't the sort of men to sit around and mourn over anything like that," she laughed.

• With time this land had mounted to great values and the holders had been made well-to-do thereby.

• When I told dad, sez I, 'Dad, did ever yer hear sech a thing uz gittin' up afore light to feed stock?'

• His parents were of the well-to-do farming class, occupied from one year's end to the other with the work of the fields.