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[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 174: Your mother’s an alky.
at alky, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 243: Come on, chicken, we’ll have us a gang bang. You can be anchor man!
at drop anchor in bum bay (v.) under anchor, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 71: Nobody loves a smart-ass.
at smart-arse, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 250: I took about three steps and fell ass-over-teakettle.
at arse/ass over teakettle under arse, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 135: It’s just a royal pain in the kazakis.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 295: The people that put these out must be queer as coots.
at ...a coot under queer as..., adj.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 16: The only men you’re ever exposed to are such big-mouthed, crude ball-clankers.
at ball-clanker (n.) under balls, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 250: I was pretty damn sure all I was going to get for my brilliant brain wave was the living daylights scared out of me.
at brainwave (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 273: She put on a very breezy. Let’s-get-to-it attitude.
at breezy, adj.1
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 43: I’m on to you, Buster. Get the money up now!
at buster, n.1
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 188: My mother gave them the ‘Cheese it, the kid!’ sign, and they clammed up.
at cheese it!, excl.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 243: Hey, chicken, you ever hear of Jelly Roll?
at chicken, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 152: ‘Christ-on-a-buckboard,’ Sally Knapp says.
at Christ on a bike! (excl.) under Christ, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 70: The dogs were conked out in the trophy room.
at conked (out), adj.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 218: My mother had flown the coop.
at fly the coop (v.) under coop, n.1
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 73: God, they were a crew when they got started.
at crew, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 67: Sweet Jesus, what could you do with a dummy like that?
at dummy, n.1
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 237: I’d really be in Dutch if I got everybody excited.
at in Dutch under Dutch, n.1
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 243: They were laughing and slapping each other fit to kill.
at fit to kill under fit to..., phr.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 40: The old foofs!
at foof, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 1011: The for-real cop only took one quick glance.
at for real, adj.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 44: Once a fox, always a fox!
at fox, n.1
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 263: Andy drove [...] to get Cecelia whose car was on the fritz.
at on the fritz (adj.) under fritz, n.2
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 243: Come on, chicken, we’ll have us a gang bang.
at gangbang, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 242: One guy said, ‘Hey, man – how’s the stem end of your bladder?’ ‘Hanging!’ the other one said.
at how’s your hammer hanging? under hammer, n.1
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 29: I talked my head off, and I was even getting laughs.
at talk one’s head off (v.) under head, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 32: They dropped her like a hot potato.
at hot potato, n.1
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 243: ‘Who-wee, Billy Jo, ain’t he cute?’ ‘Cutest lil’ ole jail bait I ever did see,’ Billy Jo squealed.
at jailbait, n.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 205: There are some times when you don’t want to be jollied up.
at jolly, v.
[US] J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 75: Boy, she was a killer.
at killer, n.
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