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The Big Town choose

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[US] R. Lardner Big Town 75: He [...] pulls a pair of African golf balls out of a drawer in his desk. ‘These dice is real ivory and they cost me twelve and a half berries.’.
at African golf ball (n.) under African, adj.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 149: When Bradley give him the air, I took him.
at give someone the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town iii: So this Codd baby had give himself an introduction to my Mrs. and Kate.
at baby, n.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 21: The other gent and my two gals was talking like barbers.
at barber, v.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town iv: It wound up by us going to New York too. We seen a picture and batted round till midnight.
at bat, v.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 177: Set down before I bat you down!
at bat, v.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 52: That was Chi and this is the Big Town.
at big town, n.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town iii: This got a laugh from Lady Perkins and the other dude, but it didn’t go very big with Doc.
at go big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 156: Once in a wile, of course, you get the bad news and forget to mail him the check and he feels blue over it.
at blue, adj.1
[US] R. Lardner Big Town ii: Beautiful Katie still had the automobile bug.
at bug, n.4
[US] R. Lardner Big Town iii: I’m a bum myself. I just play shinny, you might say.
at bum, n.3
[US] R. Lardner Big Town iii: All the ones that’s got a piece of change ducks out somewhere where they can get the air.
at change, n.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 162: After supper we’d set round and chin or play rummy.
at chin, v.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 102: They probably meant chowchow.
at chow-chow, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 180: I’m going to tell you a secret and if you don’t keep your clam shut I’ll roll you for a natural.
at clam, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 139: I guess a man won’t make no mistake following a bird that bets five and ten thousand at a clip.
at clip, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 184: He asked me for the tenth or eleventh time if I could keep a secret. He made me hold up my hand and swear I wouldn’t crack what he was going to tell me.
at crack, v.3
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 188: If Mercer was crossing me, I’d give Ella and Kate their $400 like they had win it, and say nothing.
at cross, v.1
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 43: The dinge orchestra tore loose some jazz.
at dinge, adj.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 147: He’s the duke of them all when he lays off the liquor.
at duke, n.4
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 233: Some egg in the gallery hollered ‘You said a mouthful, kid!’.
at egg, n.2
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 18: Every time one of them looked our way I give him the fish eye and the non-stop signal.
at give someone the fish-eye (v.) under fish-eye, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 144: The rest of the guests stared at us goggle-eyed.
at goggle-eyed, adj.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 188: I seen Mercer and you wouldn’t of never knew he’d fell off the wagon.
at fall off the (water) wagon (v.) under fall, v.1
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 217: I got a flop on my hands unlest I can get a couple of ideas.
at flop, n.4
[US] Lardner The Big Town 157: Ella had grabbed $160 on that race and was $140 ahead.
at grab, v.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 152: Besides the Janes and the fat rascals with them, you seen a flock of ham actors.
at ham, adj.1
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 101: But they’s only one in the bunch that’s got any handle to her name; that’s Lady Perkins.
at handle, n.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town 110: The general idea was, What the hell!
at what the hell!, excl.
[US] R. Lardner Big Town i: When the war broke loose and leather went up to hell and gone I and my wife thought he would get prosperous.
at to hell and gone under hell, n.
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