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The Affairs of Gidget choose

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[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 67: Hey – what happened? Did you have an all-out?
at all-out, n.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 57: You’ve got it made in the shade. You’re making the scene with an all-time timer.
at all-timer, n.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 38: He’s only going ape over one, Lolita. But you’re trying to get all of ’em.
at go ape for (v.) under ape, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 25: ‘Take the bike.’ ‘Applesauce,’ said Mimsy. ‘Take the bus.’.
at applesauce!, excl.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 112: ‘Atta girl!’ yelled Ollie.
at attaboy!, excl.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 113: ‘You makin’ too much noise baby-doll,’ Ollie chuckled.
at baby-doll (n.) under baby, n.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 62: Cozy? My backside!
at my backside! (excl.) under backside, n.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 76: What a fabulous, sensational, slam-bang evening.
at slam-bang, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 70: When I set it down in cold type I feel barfy and embarrassed.
at barfy (adj.) under barf, n.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 69: I was all ready to go, but determined to control my eager-beaverishness.
at eager-beaverishness (n.) under eager beaver, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 77: You’ve been real big to fix me up with Ollie.
at big, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 78: I asked her blankety-blank: ‘Did he kiss you?’.
at blankety-blank, phr.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 66: We’ll be havin’ a blast!
at blast, n.1
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 101: Most of the kids blasted off for home.
at blast off, v.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 40: The Mainfarer bonehouse has a further advantage.
at bone-house (n.) under bone, n.1
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 70: Such a scream of joy that you’d have thought someone had gone stark in a loony bin.
at stark staring bonkers, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 72: Bop on over. And tell her to snap it.
at bop, v.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 69: Your lover boy [...] That real doll of a second lieutenant.
at lover-boy, n.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 62: He won’t ask questions, so I won’t shoot him the bull.
at shoot the bull (v.) under bull, n.6
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 99: All this South Seas bullsugar.
at bull-sugar (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 50: I thought it cinched on account of my past experience, but the manager turned me down.
at cinch, v.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 62: He’s living in fat city [...] accosted by all the hot tickets in college town to hit the sack with them.
at fat city, n.1
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 78: They served us some vino that was classic, and we had the greatest pizza.
at classic, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 112: Don’t get bombed before I clue you in on something.
at clue (someone) in (v.) under clue, v.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 29: If this makes me a clunk, so it makes me a clunk.
at clunk, n.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 34: That cool cookie, had a head on her shoulders.
at cookie, n.1
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 72: You’re not shooting the crap?
at shoot (the) crap (v.) under crap, n.1
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 101: A real family wingding.
at wing-ding, n.
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 48: Have doll of a weekend.
at doll, n.1
[US] F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 31: And I thought my old man was a libertine. Compared to this doll, Dr. Gottfried Hofer was a hard-shell Ammanite.
at doll, n.1
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