1910 O. Johnson Varmint 310: I mean that there are some fellows here who are worth while and some who are not, [...] who don’t amount to a row of pins.at hill of beans, a, phr.
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 54: If any of these smart Alecs can get the best of me [...] he’ll have to be up with the chickens!at smart aleck, n.
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 14: ‘Doc,’ I says. ‘I wish you’d gimme the East and West [...]’ ‘Just what is the East and West?’ he asks me. ‘Why, look me over!’ I explains.at give somone the east and west (v.) under east and west, n.2
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 114: I’ll show you whether I’m afraid of you, you big bullies! You big stuff, you, come on!at big stuff (n.) under big, adj.
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 58: I remember that coat gag now [...] I bit once – way back in ’89.at bite, v.
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 66: ‘You paying cash?’ said Macnooder [...] ‘Sure!’ said Stover. ‘Well, call it one bone, then.’.at bone, n.4
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 358: You know you said you were going to clean off the whole slate with Al, sure as Turkey boned up.at bone up (v.) under bone, n.4
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 290: ‘I say, Slops, what would they do if they caught us?’ ‘Bounce us.’.at bounce, v.1
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 13: Say, Bub [...] You’re goin’ to have a great time at this little backwoods school.at bub, n.3
1910 Owen Johnson Varmint 203: You’ll have to buckle down and study.at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 287: And Tough McCarty, what a bully chap – bully! We’re going to be friends – pals – what a bully fellow! Everything is bully – everything!at bully, adj.1
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 127: Why you’re the cuss that smeared the Angel, swallowed the Canary, and bumped Tough McCarty, all at once.at bump, v.1
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 82: The Cleve House representatives were a lot of dubs, butterfingers and fumblers, anyhow!at butterfingers (n.) under butter, n.1
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 59: ‘I mean that it don’t button, you young pirate,’ said Al scornfully [...] ‘When you try anything as slick as that again you want to be sure the real owner ain’t been around.’.at button, v.
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 71: This is the best thing in the whole caboodle.at whole caboodle (n.) under caboodle, n.
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 18: In my country [...] we call a man who uses a brake a candy dude.at candy, adj.4
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 217: There was a slick coot by the name of Chops Van Dyne, who got strapped and hit upon a scheme for decoying the shekels.at strapped (for cash), adj.
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 391: Sis is going to put the clamps on that [W&F].at put the clamps on (v.) under clampers, n.
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 22: Why, old Cocky-wax, put this in your pipe and smoke it.at cock-a-wax (n.) under cock, n.3
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 289: Why, thankee, I’ve been aching for just a good old coffin-nail.at coffin nail, n.2
1910 O. Johnson Varmint 272: I’ve got to teach that red-haired coot a lesson [...] He’s a little too confident.at coot, n.1