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The Boy Who Followed Ripley choose

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[US] P. Highsmith Boy Who Followed Ripley (1981) 163: Lots of detectives are boobs [...] Boobs! – I love American slang.
at boob, n.2
[US] P. Highsmith Boy Who Followed Ripley (1981) 316: I’m sure Frank would. He thinks you hung the moon, Tom.
at hang the moon (v.) under hang, v.2
[US] P. Highsmith Boy Who Followed Ripley (1981) 249: Place must be hopping at night.
at hop, v.1
[US] P. Highsmith Boy Who Followed Ripley (1981) 205: You can’t expect me to sit there or stand all by myself like a wall-flower, can you, Max?
at wallflower, n.
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