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[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 186: It says here as an aftermath of the airplane crash in which Knute Rockne lost his life the Fokker 29’s are being given the air by the Department of Commerce.
at give something/somewhere the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 51: [A] Harlem beer flat was one number Dr. Reddington had called on occasion.
at beer flat (n.) under beer, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 90: Did you never hear of the Civil Service, my laddy-buck?
at laddy-buck, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 11: ‘I am in the chips. I thought we could go to the Plaza for breakfast’.
at in the chips under chip, n.2
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 96: [S]ometimes [...] the three friends would have a jam session [...] complimenting each other on breaks and licks or making pained faces when one or the other would play very corny.
at corny, adj.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 189: Mrs. Dunbar Vicks, of Cleveland, in town [...] to see a friend’s private collection of dirty movies.
at dirty, adj.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 126: ‘Come here and I’ll read you the funny section,’ he said, and picked up the paper.
at funny pages, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 164: ‘[Y]ou think I’ll get the devil if I go home drunk’.
at get hell (v.) under hell, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 17: ‘A girl who would wear a mink coat on a day like this. She’s cheap.’ ‘Well, with a mink coat she must have come high at some time’.
at high, adj.2
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 132: Mrs. Wandrous breathed with relief and hiked Gloria off to boarding school.
at hike, v.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 60: Some other time in town I’ll hook you for a really big dinner, and I might as well warn you in advance, Mrs. Farley knows wines.
at hook, v.1
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 275: [The] hysterical noise of thousands of straphangers and motorists hurrying home to their hutches.
at hutch, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 96: [S]ometimes [...] the three friends would have a jam session, the three of them playing and drinking gin and ginger ale and playing.
at jam session, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 10: ‘Coffee?’ she said. ‘Yes, I’ll have some coffee if it’s any good.’ [...] ‘Do you want some or don’t you?’ ‘Just a touch. Just one cup of piping hot javver.
at java, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 110: There’s a jiggaboom had this job before me is working down the street now.
at jigaboo, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 233: He had $23 and some change, he didn’t know how much, in his kick right now.
at kick, n.2
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 252: ‘Good luck, and I’ll see you, if not this week, perhaps a week from tomorrow.’ ‘Mm-hmm. And thanks loads’.
at loads, adv.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 246: ‘Look,’ said Ann, and extended her left hand. ‘Oh, you girl! Ann! Who is it? When? I mean do I know him or anything?’.
at oh, you —!, excl.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 31: ‘Not that it makes any difference to Miss Smarty Pants, but steak is exactly what I don’t want’.
at smarty-pants, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 134: Gloria was immensely popular with boys, and in a less strict school she could have been intercollegiate prom-trotting champion.
at prom trotter, n.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 77: A few common stocks [...] have taken a thumping, but that’s because some of them were undoubtedly priced at more than they were worth. All right. Something happens and the whole market goes smacko.
at go smacko (v.) under smack, adv.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 267: Was it to give you a false sense of security, an angry God, a cruel God, making you feel this was going to be a lovely day [...] and then—smacko!
at smacko!, excl.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 16: At Madison Avenue they were almost struck by a huge Paramount taxi, and when Jimmy swore at the driver, the driver said, ‘Go on, I’ll spit in your eye’ .
at I’ll spit in your eye! (excl.) under spit, v.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 108: ‘Good night,’ she said, ‘and thanks a million’.
at thanks a million under thanks..., phr.
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 44: In the meantime he had met and lain with ten other women [...] It got around that he was on the town, but if some kind friend ever told Emily she never let it make any difference.
at on the town under town, n.2
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 232: ‘The picture was a terrible turkey, ‘Strange Virgin,’ but they almost held it over the second week it did such business’.
at turkey, n.1
[US] J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 90: ‘Go out and ring in. [...] Go on or you’ll be wrote up again’.
at write up, v.
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