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[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 90: Eddie had a tryout with the Yankees! [...] If he makes the club he’ll go to one of their farm teams. Allright!!!
at all right!, excl.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 75: [S]he’s crying. Not a real loud boo-hoo, just a little sniffling, but she’s going at it pretty good.
at boo-hoo, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 114: ‘Just check out your heart and boogie on?’ ‘Something like that, my man,’ she said, laughing.
at boogie, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 156: [B]ack in slav’ry times, you did your can to can’t till you couldn’t do no more [...] you got up as soon as you can see and you be workin’ till you can’t see.
at from can to can’t, phr.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 79: Anyway, I’m not going to get into it too deep just in case I come up shaky.
at come up, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 153: Mom cracked up. I guess she had been hearing the lectures for so long she needed to crack on something.
at crack on (v.) under crack, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 171: Esther really looked sharp. [...] My man Santini was dressed down.
at dressed down (adj.) under dressed, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 22: Earl [...] he was greasing away on a chicken thigh.
at grease, v.4
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 55: ‘You have enough money for vacations and sports equipment and what-have-you’.
at what-have-you, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 117: Sometimes I used to be glad just to get out of bed and watch television so I wouldn’t, you know, lay up and think about things.
at lay up, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 9: ‘If you put your mouth on me, I’m gonna bust you up’.
at put one’s mouth on/upon (v.) under mouth, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 25: At three o’clock, almost on the nose, they called us.
at on the nose under nose, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 115: My father was going to take off and take her up there.
at take off, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 85: [W]e changed and went to the park and played two games of one on one.
at one-on-one, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 71: ‘[D]on’t come sounding no garbage to me because I don’t want to hear it’.
at sound, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 78: I mean, he’s not ugly, exactly. You figure like this, when they dropped the ugly bomb, it didn’t score a direct hit on my man.
at beat with an ugly stick (v.) under ugly stick, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 75: Santini’s business is in the street. He wants to shack with Esther Cruz.
at in the street under street, the, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 74: Can’t sleep after talking to my father last night. I’m about as twisted over this thing as I can be.
at twisted, adj.2
[US] W.D. Myers Won’t Know Till I Get There 10: ‘That’s not fair, Dad,’ I said. ‘You’re putting the weight on me. I didn’t do anything’.
at put the weight on (someone) (v.) under weight, n.
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