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[US] B. Hall ‘En l’air!’ 133: We do not want to kill women and children as the Germans are doing in France and England. We want to clear them up fair and square and we will!
at clean up, v.
[US] B. Hall ‘En l’air!’ 176: Captain Boelke [...] was killed in 1916 by running into another German machine. They were both done up .
at do up, v.1
[US] B. Hall ‘En l’air!’ 60: Just as I arrived the captain-observer was lighting a match to set fire to the machine. I only had an instant to think, so I hit him under the jaw and out he went.
at go out, v.
[US] B. Hall ‘En l’air!’ 166: When they [i.e. aviators] saw what they were up against they got cold feet [...] Once you see that old man with the long white whiskers looking you in the face, you sure do some thinking .
at old man, n.
[US] B. Hall ‘En l’air!’ 95: [W]e played poker, bridge, and a few good old ‘prayer meetings’ as the dice games were called.
at prayer meeting (n.) under prayer, n.
[US] B. Hall ‘En l’air!’ 183: Of course the [girls] who take to flyers are a little more speedy, as the average flyer is a little on the speedy side himself .
at speedy, adj.
[US] B. Hall ‘En l’air!’ 157: [T]he man had been captured and put through the third degree and he ‘spilt the beans’ .
at spill the beans (v.) under spill, v.
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