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[US] Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly XXIII 278: [...] curses enough to make the air blue.
at make the air blue (v.) under blue, adj.3
[US] Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly LI 561: There would be the office boy, the messenger boy, the door or button boy, the newsboy, the common street boy and several other varieties.
at button boy (n.) under button, n.1
[US] Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly LI 212: I saw one man lose $6000 before he realised he was ‘bucking a sure-thing game,’ and if he had wanted satisfaction he stood a poor show.
at sure-thing, adj.
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