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Mutt & Jeff choose

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[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 10 Dec. [synd. cartoon] Aw, Mutt, I can’t go no more. I’m ‘in’.
at all in, adj.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 15 Oct. [synd. strip] I’ll go right over and get a felt beanie.
at beanie, n.1
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 12 Dec. [synd. strip] I’ll write one [i.e. a proposal of marriage] out for you — a bear.
at bear, n.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 9 Aug. [synd. strip] Bring me a plate of bee’s knees.
at bee’s knees, n.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 17 Jan. [synd. cartoon] Oh yaas! We are the big noises in art in America.
at big noise (n.) under big, adj.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 13 Dec. [synd. strip] Mutt made a bloomer writing out a proposal for me yesterday.
at bloomer, n.2
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 6 Oct. [synd. strip] Don’t make any bum breaks [...] Don’t tip your mitt.
at bum break (n.) under break, n.1
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 28 Dec. [synd. strip] Aw, dog, for the love of Mike, use some discretion. Cheese it!
at cheese it!, excl.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 21 Oct. [synd. strip] [of a number of books] The whole cheese for 90 cents.
at cheese, n.1
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 27 July [synd. strip] I’m gonna be a mechanician for the driver of car no. 4. Class to me.
at class to me! (excl.) under class, n.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 22 July [synd. strip] Act classy! [...] Don’t make any bad breaks.
at classy, adv.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 6 Apr. [synd. cartoon] A salad, French peas, fried spuds and a tall cold one.
at cold one, n.2
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 4 Oct. [synd. strip] We’ll cold deck him and cop his roll.
at cold-deck, v.1
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 4 Oct. [synd. strip] We’ll let him him win a couple of dollars first as a convincer, then we’ll cold deck him and cop his roll.
at convincer, n.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 22 Nov. [synd. strip] A single man has got it soft. I was a boob ever to take the count.
at take the count (v.) under count, n.3
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 8 Oct. [synd. strip] Mutt Is Simply Daffy to Join a Fraternity at Harvard.
at daffy, adj.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 21 Nov. [synd. strip] Jeff will be daffy when he hears I was in a box [i.e. at a horse show].
at daffy, adj.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 3 Aug. [synd. strip] Say, your hair is a triple to the fritz — would you like a hair cut?
at on the fritz (adj.) under fritz, n.2
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 31 Jan. [synd. cartoon] Say, you big frog, I never won a fight in my life.
at Frog, n.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 25 Feb. [synd. cartoon] I want to get a peep at the kink of Spain so that I’ll have it on my friend Jeff.
at have it on someone, v.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 16 Nov. [synd. strip] I’ll shave off the hedge and see how it would look.
at hedge, n.2
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 19 Sept. [synd. strip] It is rumored [...] that his spouse nicked him for his change and then gave him the hook.
at give someone the hook (v.) under hook, n.1
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 22 Nov. [synd. strip] Say Mutt, I’m, in right! I met a swell dame [and] she’s dead stuck on me.
at in, adv.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 29 July [synd. strip] I went into a gambling house [...] Gambling’s against the law. You can have the joint pinched.
at joint, n.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 3 Feb. [synd. cartoon] I look ten years younger. Mutt can’t kid me about my knob any more.
at knob, n.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 6 Aug. [synd. strip] Hey Jeff, mitt me! Shake!
at mitt me! (excl.) under mitt, v.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 30 Nov. [synd. strip] I’ve always wanted moss on my dome.
at moss, n.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 19 Sept. [synd. strip] It is rumored [...] that his spouse nicked him for his change and then gave him the hook.
at nick, v.1
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 22 Nov. [synd. strip] Say Mutt, I’m, in right! I met a swell dame [and] she’s dead stuck on me.
at right, adv.
[US] B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 19 Sept. [synd. strip] When i thought I had all his coin I gave him the rowse.
at give someone the rouse (v.) under rouse, v.
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