I'm a little confused by the following sentence. I know all the nouns here, but I don't understand the phrase "a turn them bandages"
What a turn them bandages did give me, to be sure!
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Sign up to join this communityI'm a little confused by the following sentence. I know all the nouns here, but I don't understand the phrase "a turn them bandages"
What a turn them bandages did give me, to be sure!
Turn: see definition 13b. Here it means a surprise or shock. And them here is dialect for those.