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[US] Phillipsburg Herald (KS) 20 Sept. 3/1: Zouns, how bilious he must have been.
at zounds!, excl.
[US] Phillipsburg Herald (KS) 13 Dec. 2/5: ‘Yes, Mrs hayseed, the ign’rance of city folks about country life is just amusin’’.
at hayseed, n.
[US] Phillipsburg Herald (KS) 9 May 4/4: And last of all the public schools / [...] / Which ought to make each mother’s son / As good and great as Washington.
at every mother’s son, n.
[US] Phillipsburg Herald (KS) 21 Dec. 3/6: We allus remarked [...] that sech folks was ‘as odd as Dick’s hatband’.
at odd as Dick’s hatband (adj.) under Dick’s hatband, n.
[US] Phillipsburg Herald (KS) 25 Apr. 7/5: In pigin-English, ‘Bamboo chow-chow’ is a term expressing the application of the rod.
at bamboo chow-chow (n.) under bamboo, n.
[US] Phillipsburg Herald (KS) 19 July 4/1: It seems to be bonds which ever way the cat jumps.
at see which way the cat jumps (v.) under cat, n.1
[US] Phillipsburg Herald (KS) 5 Feb. 4/3: Don’t take any wooden nickels or bad checks.
at wooden nickel (n.) under wooden, adj.
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