"'Call it a hunch, if you want,' I said, 'but—'  'I don't want to call it anything,' he said."
—Raymond Chandler, The Thin Man


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Jonathan spotted this one in the wild.

"Call it a hunch, call it a pipe dream."
—George Harmon Coxe, Deadly Image (2011)


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"'Call it a hunch.'  'A hunch?  You wouldn't happen to have anything solid to back that up, would you?'"
—Kay Hooper, Out of the Shadows (2000), as if adding some wit to Young Frankenstein


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"Call it a hunch.  You know, a five-letter word for feeling."
—Debra Dixon, Bad to the Bone (2012)


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"Call it a hunch, but it's based on some of the oldest saws in the book."
—Linda Barnes, Deep Pockets (2004), as if referring to two scenes from Young Frankenstein




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"Call it a hunch.  Legends—and would-be legends—had to trust their hunches."
—Dean R. Koontz, Shadowfires (2008), as if referring to certifiable legend Marty Feldman


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"Call it a hunch, and not just in my psychic kneecap."
—Karen Moline, Belladonna (1998)


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"Call it a hunch.  But I know you got something."
—Tom Maremaa, Imagined (2000), as if recalling two scenes from Young Frankenstein




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"Call it a hunch or a last-ditch effort.  Heck, go ahead and call it insanity."
—Geoffrey Verdegast, Of Staves and Sigmas (2007), as if describing Young Frankenstein


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"'Call it a hunch.'  He stood frozen in the doorway as if he couldn't decide, or as if part of him wanted to and part of him didn't."
—Laurell K. Hamilton, Blood Noir (2008), as if describing the plot of Young Frankenstein


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"Call it a hunch."
"Call it anything you like, it's still odd."
—Sue Grafton, U is for Undertow


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"For a man who denies belief in the paranormal, you're putting a lot of faith in a hunch."
—Kay Hooper, Touching Evil (2001), as if describing the plot of Young Frankenstein


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"Call it a hunch, call it plot expediency, call it what you will."
—John William See, The Lady Cries Murder (1983), as if describing the scripting of Young Frankenstein


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"Call it a hunch, call it experience, call it a biased analysis by a lovesick dummy, but something didn't compute."
—Barry T. Hawkins, There Are Smiles That Make Us Blue (2003)


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"Call it a hunch.  Call it grasping at straws.  Call it anything."
—Mary Higgins Clark, A Stranger is Watching (2000)


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"Yeah, call it a hunch . . . Whatever you do, don't call it what it was — a sudden flood of complete certainty that if he looked at those long-ignored records, he would find something.  Because if you call it that, you'll have to admit you don't know what the hell is going on inside your own head these days."
—Edward Willett, Marseguro (2008), eerily apropos to the plot of Young Frankenstein


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"Call it a hunch.  If you want to be extra polite, call it a sense of character."
—Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1988), as if referring to the great Marty Feldman


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"Call it curiosity, call it a hunch, or call it, as my own analyst might be inclined to call it, an attempt to rectify a past mistake."
—Heidi Julavits, The Uses of Enchantment, as if describing the plot of Young Frankenstein


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