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[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 231: ‘This [burlesque] is it, this is what’s happening, this is where it is for you’.
at where it’s at, phr.
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 39: Up front were the bald heads, hot and sweating, staring up at us.
at baldhead, n.
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 284: Let little Eddie, the butt boy, shake him out of it. That way he’d see that his boss had spent the night on the sofa and not in my bed.
at butt boy (n.) under butt, n.1
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 334: ‘Living with you is enough to give a guy ulcers. You’ve got something cooking on the burner all the while’.
at cook on the front burner (v.) under cook, v.1
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 315: My pup, Okie, seemed to sense I was leaving and was running around the apartment frantically and doing his cuties in hopes I wouldn’t leave him.
at cutie, n.1
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 329: ‘Tell Georgia I will be around to pick her up at about nine thirty’ ‘Check, Mr. Plant,’ Foxie said. ‘Will do’.
at will do, phr.
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 31: Look, Georgia, since you’re broke, why don’t you ask Mr. Hurst for an advance. He’ll fix you up.
at fix up, v.1
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 259: ‘[W]hile you’re trying to figure it out, because most men do make passes, you find he’s suddenly in like Flynn’.
at in like Flynn, phr.
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 298: ‘Christ, all the two of you do is sit and put the glom on each other’.
at put the glom on (v.) under glom, n.2
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 228: Burlesque is crude, the way you tell it. But for your crowd I’ve got to have all my goodies flying to the four winds.
at goodies, n.
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 259: Oh, Georgetown, you poor kid. That gag’s so old it’s wearing hair.
at have hair on it (v.) under hair, n.
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 222: The wardrobe woman, a stout Irisher with a thick brogue in her voice.
at Irisher, n.
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 280: ‘When you’re with me, you wear my flowers,’ he ordered, ‘not some jerker’s from New York!’ .
at jerker, n.2
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 86: I had kicked the legitimate side of show business that I loved and gone into the business of stripping away my clothing for a bunch of sweating, hot-eyed men.
at kick, v.1
[US] G. Sothern Georgia 27: [H]er body [...] was naked except for a patch of rhinestones that covered her you-know-what .
at you know what, n.
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 268: Rags looked over his shoulder and grinned at me and made an OK sign with his fingers.
at OK sign (n.) under OK!, excl.
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 269: Errol [Flynn] reached up and felt his forehead, held a hand out in front of him, and studied the way it trembled. ‘God, I’m all shot down,’ he complained. ‘I feel lousy’.
at shot down (adj.) under shot, adj.
[US] (con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 290: I got my costumes from the closet and caught the tube at Hudson Street and went over there to rehearsals.
at tube, n.1
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