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The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories choose

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[US] ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 35: Babbitt was in last night as full as a boiled owl.
at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 115: Did you ever notice me [...] peering in the window of the five-and-ten?
at five and dime, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 209: Count Fernando Mazzini was his name. I never saw the beat of him for elegance.
at beat, n.2
[US] ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 169: Eagerly gulping down the strong black headlines to be followed as a chaser by the milder details of the smaller type [DA].
at chaser, n.1
[US] ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 13: He isn’t a millionaire so hard that you could notice it, anyhow.
at hard, adv.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 238: I managed to soak in a little straight or some spilled Martini [...] whenever I could.
at straight, n.1
[US] ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 240: He’s going on a whiz to-night .
at whiz, n.1
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