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A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] They watch him pass. Drunker than a fiddler’s wench. Drunker than a bootlegger’s pal. Drunk as the devil himself.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] They watch him pass. Drunker than a fiddler’s wench. Drunker than a bootlegger’s pal. Drunk as the devil himself. A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [T]he manicure girls in the barber shop give him the out-and-out sneer and the hat-check girls and even the floor girls [...]—all of whom he has tried to date up—they all respond with an identical raspberry to his invitations.at out-and-out, adj.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [S]he told me he was some baby on music.at baby, n.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] A violation of section 2012 of the City Code. Thirty days in the Bastile, Fanny.at bastille, n.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [S]he points to a beetle-browed citizen with an unshaven face.at beetle-brain (n.) under beetle, n.1
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] I knew there would be warrants and commotion, the deal having flopped and a lot of prominent citizens feeling as if they had been bilked.at bilk, v.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] ‘Barry, old top, if you will chase the blighter after another highball, I'll drink your excellent health’.at blighter, n.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] ‘I got an idee he’d blow in tonight. He ain’t missed a Saturday night for months’.at blow in, v.2
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [W]e are what we are—browbeaten, weary-eyed, terribly optimistic units of the boobilariat.at booby, n.1
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Jazz songs, ballads, sad, silly, boobish nut songs—all about love me—love me.at booby, adj.1
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] The bassoon and the bull fiddle—they umpah ump along. Underneath the quaver and whine of the jazz they beat the time [...] The feet dancing on the crowded cabaret floor listen cautiously for the trombone, the bassoon and the bull fiddle.at bull fiddle (n.) under bull, adj.1
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Lucky O'Connor, who had busted his way out of jail and was being hunted by a million people with guns [etc].at bust out, v.2
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] I join a rubberneck crowd in one of the carryalls with a megaphone guy in charge.at carryall (n.) under carry, v.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] But he's got a good face, you might say. Class, eh? You'd know he was a musician.at class, adj.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Where you been hiding yourself? I thought you and I were cookies.at cookie, n.1
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] The kind that hang on your words and breathe hard while you cut loose with the patter.at cut loose, v.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] But the city was such a razzle-dazzle of dreams, tragedies, fantasies [...] that it filled the newspaper man's thought from day to day with an irritating blur.at razzle-dazzle, n.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] There was music and dancing and a whoop-de-da-da in the amusement parks.at whoop-de-do, n.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Well, well, here's a howdeedo. His nobs is going to play the concerto. Good-by, good luck and God bless him.at how-do-you-do, n.1
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [T]he "skeeter scale" that the orchestra used to turn turn turn taaaa-tum [...] as the two dockwallopers and the leering Chinaman were climbing in through little Mabel's hall bedroom window to abduct her.at dock-walloper (n.) under dock, n.2
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] The curtain is up. Egad, what a masterly scene.at egad!, excl.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] I could see that she was not only the kind of fish that lose their heads at auctions, but the terrible kind that believe everything the auctioneer says.at fish, n.1
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] There's Mr. Erbstein, for instance, the criminal lawyer. He's a pretty smart one [...] thought himself pretty foxy.at foxy, adj.1
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] A meal at the club, and gadzooks but his stomach was in arms!at gadzooks! (excl.) under gad, n.1
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] They are kind of goofily romantic and they fall hard for everything and they spend their last penny on a lot of truck.at goofily, adv.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Mr. Martin [...] slipped from the window ledge, shaking down his wrinkled, high-water pants.at highwater, adj.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] ‘What in Sam Hill is my motif?’.at Sam Hill, n.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] ‘You should ought to hear the lads when they're hitting on all six’.at hit on all cylinders (v.) under hit, v.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [T]he idea of Queen Bess blowing in $5,000 for a tally-ho layout to ride to the races in! Six horses and two drivers in yellow and blue livery and [...] the beribboned and painted coach bouncing down the boulevard.at tally-ho, adj.
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] I figured that the Nebraska coppers had let out a big holler and I thought it best to lay kind of low and keep out of trouble.at holler, n.
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