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Lady Sings the Blues choose

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[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 53: All alone in a room upstairs [...] cuddling a big-assed bottle of champagne.
at big-ass, adj.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 45: When Fanny landed her first blow on Mom, I got into it and started whaling away at Fanny.
at whale away, v.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 25: With my regular white customers, it was a cinch. They had wives and kids to go home to. When they came to see me it was wham, bang, they gave me the money and were gone. [Ibid.] 27: ‘I thought I was giving you a chance,’ she spouted at me. ‘But you turned out to be a girl of bad character.’ Wham, bang, four months she handed me.
at wham bam!, excl.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 146: Man, that bitch had boosted everything I had looked at during the whole shopping store. And all of it was stashed in a big pair of bloomers.
at boost, v.2
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 40: Then the house broke up. There’s nothing like an audience at the Apollo.
at break up, v.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 26: This was all a lot of crud.
at crud, n.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 92: A lot of creeps have been dogging Orson Welles ever since.
at dog, v.1
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 102: Jimmy started letting me lie down with him [...] it was during this time I got hooked.
at lay down, v.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 29: But any kind of freakish felings are better than no feelings at all.
at freakish, adj.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 53: Things were just too hoity-toity.
at hoity-toity, adj.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 44: Jimmy’s got the best panatella you ever smoked in your life.
at panatella, n.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 92: He’s a [...] talented cat. But more than that, he’s fine people.
at good people (n.) under people, n.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 55: I’d have to travel five hundred to six hundred miles on a hot or cold raggedy-ass Blue Goose bus.
at raggedy-ass ride (n.) under raggedy, adj.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1973) 156: [Lena Horne] insisted on taking me out with her and bought me lunch, and we had a wonderful schmooze about the old days in Hollywood.
at schmooze, n.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 43: Some cat would be cussing out some broad a blue streak.
at blue streak (n.) under streak, n.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1973) 24: Mom [...] swore on a stack of Bibles I was eighteen.
at swear on a stack of Bibles (a mile high) (v.) under swear, v.
[US] Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 95: He [...] practically made me feel like a Tom for not sitting down with him.
at Uncle Tom, n.
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