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A great hit. A piece of good luck. From the game hit and miss, or the game of backgammon, where “two hits equal a gammon.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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