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(con. 1893) Goodbye to the Past 144: ‘Junius says he uses more axle-grease than a spring wagon’.at axle grease, n.
(con. 1893) Goodbye to the Past 144: ‘Junius says he uses more axle-grease than a spring wagon’. Goodbye to the Past (con. 1893) 162: You old goat. Can’t you leave a decent woman alone? Just cause your wife’s at the Fair you think you’ve got to go tomcatting around’.at tom cat, v.
Goodbye to the Past 40: ‘I ain’t in the army no more. I take orders from nobody but Bill Meadows. I do what I like. If I want this chili queen here, I take her’.at chili queen (n.) under chile-, pfx
Goodbye to the Past 58: ‘That’s what a brain’s for; to keep a man from working. It’s only chuckleheads that work’.at chucklehead, n.
Goodbye to the Past 7: The Old Man shouted [...] that ‘all the goddam codfish aristocrats in Midland City were moving out to Fairhaven and he’d be hanged if he wanted to live in among a lot of real estate salesmen and bank cashiers and riffraff like that’.at codfish, n.
Goodbye to the Past 114: ‘Mose is working him [i.e. a horse]. Getting him ready to trot your eyeballs out’.at ...someone’s eyeballs out under eyeball, n.2
Goodbye to the Past 193: She’s put many a pair of horns on Tate. It’s common knowledge. But he’s so damn crazy about her he just keeps on.at put the horns on (v.) under horn, n.1
Goodbye to the Past 201: He had promised Bill there would be no talk of business, but the Judge was pouring it on, hardly giving Bill a chance to say a word.at pour it on, v.
Goodbye to the Past 40: ‘I won’t have insubordination. A jolt in the army would do that four-eyed sister a lot of good’.at jolt, n.
Goodbye to the Past 75: ‘You’ll forget all this in a little while, Charlotte. It will blow over. Charley Cross killed the newspaper account’.at kill, v.
(con. 1893) Goodbye to the Past 151: [of an act of adultery] ‘Better get my head examined,’ he told himself. ‘Me, forty-five and getting knocked over like that!’.at knock over, v.
Goodbye to the Past 94: The little boy [...] hated being made over and talked to and patted.at make over (v.) under make, v.
Goodbye to the Past 90: He’d heard that Ross had paid a pretty penny for that gelding and Ross had told somebody that now he had a horse to trim that damn old black pelt with!at pelt, n.
Goodbye to the Past 66: ‘Everybody’s reading Freud now. Why, even my psych prof mentioned him the other day’.at psych, n.
Goodbye to the Past 195: But in Alkali they didn’t take in the sidewalks on Sunday afternoons!at roll up the sidewalk (v.) under sidewalk, n.
Goodbye to the Past 53: He’s one of the best men we’ve got, father. Hard-working and loyal.’ ‘Maybe. But I won’t have insubordination. A jolt in the army would do that four-eyed sister a lot of good.at sister, n.
Goodbye to the Past 237: Hen hesitated and rubbed his chin reflectively. ‘You must’ve had bad news.’ ‘Well, it’s no skin off your backside, is it?’.at no skin off one’s ass under skin, n.1
Goodbye to the Past 58: ‘Must remember to call up Doc Spence, and get these tusks yanked out’.at tusk, n.
Goodbye to the Past 32: ‘[D]on’t sit down. I don’t want you younguns sitting around in here when you don’t want to’.at young ’un (n.) under young, adj.
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