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[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 174: [of a woman] ‘It takes balls for a chick to propose to a guy’.
at balls, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 286: ‘Peewee, we get the direction of the voices, then go the other way.’ ‘Bet!’.
at bet!, excl.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 208: The medic [...] started wiping my face. The corners of my mouth. ‘How you doing, big guy?’.
at big guy (n.) under big, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 273: ‘Sucker get through a calendar, you ought to give it to him [...] You got to like a man make it through a whole calendar over here’.
at calendar, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 113: [of an M-60 machine gun] Johnson had the pig, the big sixty, the heavy ’chine.
at ’chine, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 184: We were all jumpy [...] we couldn’t get down. We had been shooting and screaming and scared that somebody, that something, was going to kill us. We just couldn’t get down that easily.
at come down, v.3
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 298: ‘[We] saw the whole damn Cong army coming at us. The way we figured we had to split or die right there. [...] Johnson wanted to go down right there’.
at go down, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 101: ‘He got drafted four years ago, but he changed his name and stayed low’.
at low, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 5: The only reason I was going [to Vietnam] anyway was because of a paperwork mess up.
at mess-up, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 47: [He] thought he might have lost his comb there. He went into the hooch to look for his pick.
at pick, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 177: Walowick was a rock, a fucking rock, and he had freaked out.
at rock, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 153: Kenny loved her straight up and down. He didn’t see any faults in her.
at straight up, adv.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 282: Lobel was just about holding it together. We had to get him back [...] [l]et him get the knots out of his nerves .
at keep it together (v.) under together, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 5: ‘[T]he worst thing that’ll happen to you is that you catch a social disease in downtown Saigon that’ll rot your twinkie off’.
at twinkie, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Fallen Angels 125: ‘Okay, let’s hit it!’ he said. We were starting off. Backing out of the village toward the pickup zone.
at hit it, v.
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