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(con. WW1) Great Adventure 142: There was no question but that there was a big hen on, but nobody knew what it was to be.at hen is on, a, phr.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 142: There was no question but that there was a big hen on, but nobody knew what it was to be. (con. WW1) Great Adventure 90: His squadron activities were numerous. Banking a roulette game, playing poker, keeping up with his drinking and incidentally taking out patrols .at bankroll, v.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 44: The stick in the Blériot had [...] a contact button [...] so that the motor could be blipped on and off.at blip, v.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 213: There was no British airdrome on the Western Front where a buzzard couldn’t land and be offered a cheering cup almost before he had time to switch off his motor.at buzzard, n.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 314: I spotted three two-seaters in close formation sailing for our lines. [...] There was no cold meat about that bunch, even for four of us. They presented an almost impregnable defense.at cold meat, n.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 90: [S]quabbles among the boys resulting from strained nerves or too much cougar milk.at cougar milk, n.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 333: I know he didn’t want to die, but if it was so written in the stars, he died as he would have wished—with his boots on, fighting to the last.at die in one’s boots (v.) under die, v.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 175: No matter what happened, Didier was going to be there till the last dog was hung.at until the last dog dies, phr.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 255: [T]the French knew to a dot just what was going on in front of them .at to a dot (adv.) under dot, n.2
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 288: [S]ome lame brain in the security of a comfortable office [...] thought up a brilliant new idea to give pursuit pilots a headache [...] this Einstein of the nonflying personnel at headquarters smacked his lips over the idea.at Einstein, n.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 61: It [i.e. faked ‘crash landing’] got so prevalent that the brass hats began to regard even the legitimate breakdowns with a fishy eye.at fishy, adj.1
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 239: ‘What’s the matter with you birds up here? Why don’t you get more Boches? My gosh, [...] I’m going out and show you goldbrickers something .at goldbrick, n.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 277: Much annoyed at having missed the rendezvous, Jimmy gave her [i.e. an airplane] the gun and drove ahead to catch up.at give it the gun (v.) under gun, n.1
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 270: Sometimes [...] we’d go over in the particular spot in the Heinie lines where we knew there was a very touchy Archie outfit .at Heinie, n.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 99: They [i.e. fighter airplanes] got him in a cross fire and hosed lead at him from all angles.at hose, v.1
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 310: [H]e dragged himself up onto the shores of Switzerland, naked as a jay bird, but a free man once again.at naked as a jaybird (adj.) under jaybird, n.1
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 26: ‘[B]etter start praying now they don’t find those two bozos we brought over or it’s “Caput” for us’.at kaput, adj.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 46: About four or five feet off the ground, the amateur eagle just let her drop ker-wham.at kerwham! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 269: [H]e rode triumphantly back on the seat of the meat wagon which had been hastily dispatched to pick up his mangled remains .at meat wagon (n.) under meat, n.
Great Adventure 183: He was in a bad spot to defend himself [but] he had ideas that were decidedly averse to getting washed out .at wash out, v.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 43: [I]n anything but the most favorable combination of circumstances, such as a perfectly perking motor (a great rarity) [...] keeping a Blériot under perfect control presented somewhat of a problem [Ibid.] 63: Much to my pleased surprise, I perked along without trouble until I got there.at percolate, v.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 10: The slightest indication of swank or taking ourselves seriously was more than sufficient cause for a riding that would leave egos raw and bleeding.at riding, n.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 294: [H]e was quite convinced that between them they could have gotten the whole smear [i.e. of enemy aircraft] .at whole schmeer (n.) under schmeer, n.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 142: [The] large-caliber shells [...] exploded all around Pavelka [...] but he was used to that and calmly sloughed his way through .at slough, v.
(con. WW1) Great Adventure 138: [T]o paraphrase an old wheeze, our life in the air was likely to be a short but not particularly merry one .at wheeze, n.
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