swear on a stack

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English

Verb

swear on a stack (third-person singular simple present swears on a stack, present participle swearing on a stack, simple past swore on a stack, past participle sworn on a stack)

  1. Ellipsis of swear on a stack of Bibles.
    • 2003 September, Robert Bennett, The New Roman Empire, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:
      “And give it a damn good Hoover down as well. The dust particles you'll suck out her tear-away top will match the must from the back room over at Benny's and I've got a crowd of standing room only who'll swear on a stack that our only dirty deed went down over there.”
    • 2019 May 14, Ali Vali, Stormy Seas, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN, →OCLC:
      “Good enough for me, and I'm no snitch. You can come home with a necklace of Johnsons if that's what it takes to get what we need, and I'll swear on a stack that I didn't see a thing.”