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[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 22 June 1/2: A howling mob made up of drunken scrapegraces weith not enough sense to carry guts to a bear, vulgarly speaking.
at carry guts to a bear (v.) under gut, n.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 25 Dec. 13/2: If anytone can beat that against an ‘ambulance chasing’ damage lawyer, he is a crackerjack.
at ambulance-chasing (adj.) under ambulance-chaser, n.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 17 July 2/3: The giggling girl may sober down when she gets older, but the loudmouth girl is likely to become louder.
at loudmouth, adj.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 1 May 1/2: The move is already kicking up a muss among the teachers.
at raise a muss (v.) under muss, n.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 23 Oct. 2/1: We may expect to see the cheerful adherents of this vanished orb [...] adapt a plank viewing ‘with alarm’ the previousness of occult science.
at previousness, n.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 15 July 4/2: [headline] A Peck’s Bad Boy Did It.
at Peck’s bad boy, n.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 19 Aug. 4/2: The numerous campaign speakers have dead loads of hot air that they are giving away.
at dead loads (n.) under dead, adv.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 22 July 3/1: The money bugs are supporting Parker almost to a man.
at money bug (n.) under money, n.
[US] Seattle Republican (WA) 22 July 2/1: Someone should be squelched.
at squelch, v.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 19 Aug. 4/3: Dr Burdett’s colonization scheme [...] seemns to smack largely of a ‘wildcat scheme’. The coon getting the dough and the cat the cahoot.
at wildcat, adj.
[US] Seattle Republican (WA) 3 Nov. 2/2: Mrs William Partridge [...] has gained the soubriquet of ‘Lady Boss’ from the men who work under her directions.
at boss lady (n.) under boss, n.2
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 5 May 1/1: Spokane, after all, is an ori-eyed Democrat hot-bed, and it now seems beyond Republican redemption.
at ory-eyed, adj.
[US] Seattle Republican (WA) 3 Nov. 3/3: ‘Fine feathers make fine birds’ all right, but it is not boys who wear the ‘swellest’ clothes .
at feathers, n.1
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 11 Aug. 37/1: That might look too much like wanting to make an honest living, and it would never do for such an impression to get out among the perfesh.
at profesh, n.
[US] Seattle Republican (WA) 27 Apr. 2/2: The nerve-wracking, jawbreaking names usually given to [railroad] drawing rooms and sleping cars.
at jaw-breaking, adj.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 25 Jan. 5/3: It took the Senate committee on railroads but a few hours after getting down to caases to discover that Pie-maker had been barking up the right tree.
at down to cases under down, adv.1
[US] Seattle republican (WA) 10 July 4/4: Everybody and his brother are clamorous for the moving of the redlight district.
at everybody and his cousin, n.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 10 July 1/3: Ridpath has never been in the race in the opinion of the average voter and political rag chewer.
at rag chewer, n.
[US] Seattle Republican (Wash. State) 22 July 5/3: I had hog-killing time with the boys.
at hog-killing (time) (n.) under hog, n.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 10 June 5/2: When the callow youth proposes [...] and gets the marble heart, the stony stare and the icy mit [sic], he is apt to swear never again.
at frozen mitt (n.) under mitt, n.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 30 Dec. 57: He [...] has always been in the front rank of the business push of the city.
at push, n.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 12 May 1/3: Perhaps they would advocate more work and less rag chewing in the print shops.
at chew the rag, v.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 25 Oct. 4/2: It is so intricately remote that it would take a Philadelphia lawyer a lifetime to figure it out.
at Philadelphia lawyer, n.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 20 Dec. 6/1: It is a hard-hearted merchant that will refuse one of his customers a gallon of ‘wet’ for Christmas, even though he did come out at the little end of the horn.
at little end of the horn (n.) under little, adj.
[US] Seattle Repub. (WA) 4 Oct. 2/3: The American soldier is generally a pretty decent fellow [...] while there some rough-necked irresponsible and disreputable people among them.
at roughneck, adj.
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