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[UK] ‘Operator 1384’ McCann of the Legion (1941) 187: ‘It’s your funeral but you are ten different kinds of a fool to tie yourself up with a woman like she is’.
at all kinds of, adv.
[UK] ‘Operator 1384’ McCann of the Legion (1941) 8: ‘Say, what brings a son of the bulldog breed to this bughouse?’.
at bughouse, n.
[UK] ‘Operator 1384’ McCann of the Legion (1941) 128: ‘Oh yeah! Think I’m a Cook’s guide? I’d sure lose my way alone, son; so guess again and don’t you kid yourself’.
at guess again (v.) under guess, v.
[UK] ‘Operator 1384’ McCann of the Legion (1941) 197: ‘Did you escape without any of them seeing you?’ I queeried [sic]. ‘Did I hell! That wouldn’t have been getting even with them. No’.
at did I hell! (excl.) under — hell!, excl.
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