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Another Mug for the Bier choose

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[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 67: Anne sighed and said O.K. lover boy. It was a big nickel’s worth.
at big nickel (n.) under big, adj.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 87: ‘Hit you a good lick, didn’t he?’ ‘I’ve been socked on the biscuit before,’ I said.
at biscuit, n.1
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 67: ‘The Carlton at four o’clock this afternoon,’ I said. Anne sighed and said O.K. lover boy.
at lover-boy, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 22: Sam was one of the two or three hundred pressure boys in Washington. [...] You want a law passed or not passed [...] you will hire Sam Finch.
at pressure boy, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 125: ‘She burned out her gentlemen friends very fast, I have heard’.
at burn out, v.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 157: I gave him [...] the curbstone opinion that Henrietta had been poisoned.
at curbstone, adj.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 25: ‘Whyn’t you wipe that garbage-eating grin off your face?’ I asked.
at shit-eating grin, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 41: ‘[S]someday you are going to get that old eggshell of yours caved in for carrying money like that’.
at egg, n.1
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 18: The little girl had been a familiar figure at [...] the cocktail fights frequented by the old man.
at fight, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 46: The he-gossips at the Press Club have been gumming about another romance of Courtney Mandrel’s.
at gum, v.2
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 164: [I]t was an ambulance, helling out the state road.
at hell, v.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 19: I hit up the operator. ‘Did Miss Chance stop off at the restaurant?’ I asked.
at hit up, v.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 12: [I]f the government built the pipeline, the Broken Bow interests would be hog-rich overnight.
at hog-rich (adj.) under hog, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 17: He was a big, hog-gutted man with little puzzled blue eyes set deep in a heavy, purple face.
at hog-gutted under hog, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 120: ‘She’d do anything to keep him from being hooked up in a scandal. Wants him to be President’.
at hook up (v.) under hook, v.1
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 119: I am not going to take any hot money for participating in a swindle.
at hot, adj.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 84: ‘What do you want. Or should I say, how much?’ [...] ‘Well, Strongheart, the ante has been kicked somewhat’.
at kick, v.1
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 106: The kicker, of course, was the station wagon [...] who ever heard of having a station wagon without painting a coy name on the side of it?
at kicker, n.6
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 96: ‘I saw her as I left his apartment. Very well-kept piece of machinery. [...] Very vigorous and healthy-looking tomato’.
at machinery, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 89: He took a generous nibble at his drink and continued.
at nibble, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 140: I let good old Strongheart have another real fine left to the pantry.
at pantry, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 42: I let these thoughts percolate while I drove through Washington.
at percolate, v.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 25: I took a quick look at the taxpayers’ pews.
at pew, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 67: Henrietta [...] also looked like a gal who'd pop your shoelaces.
at pop someone’s shoelaces (v.) under pop, v.1
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 9: I dealt six tickets to all hands. [...] ‘The trump suit will be puppy-dog feet’.
at puppy-foot (n.) under puppy, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 125: ‘Courtney Mandrel is pushed off with a poison’.
at push off (v.) under push, v.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 15: ‘[A] lot of good men died trying to fly old rust buckets against the airplanes the Krauts and Japs had’.
at rust bucket (n.) under rust, n.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 49: ‘[E]ven he is smart enough to know he is shoveling garbage against the tide with his pipeline bill’.
at shovel shit against the tide (v.) under shovel, v.
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 40: ‘I don’t like to have folks spin me. You know what I mean?’ [...] ‘Sure,’ I said. I wouldn’t spin you, Sam’.
at spin, v.1
[US] R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 153: Perhaps if the antidotes had been applied instantly they would have saved her. It’s star-gazing.
at star-gazing (n.) under star, n.1
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