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[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 58: And the first thing you know all the high monkey monks when they want to talk back and forth will be pageing Capt. Keefe or Major Keefe or whatever officer I am by that time.
at high muck-a-muck, n.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 51: I thought maybe they had missed the A.M. trains and would come later.
at a.m., n.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 120: Well 1 of the smart aleck lieuts. started out and hit the bulls eye 8 times and the target the other 2 times.
at smart-aleck, adj.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 19: A lot of the boys give this officer a song and dance about how good they can drive a car and etc.
at give someone a song and dance (v.) under song and dance, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 51: Capt. Nash might [...] shut us both up in the guard house together and one or the other of us wouldn’t never come out alive and which ever one it was it would give the camp a black eye.
at give someone/something a black eye (v.) under black eye, n.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 28: He has always got a knife hid on him somewheres and his first name is Nick so they call him Nick the Blade.
at blade, n.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 81: He got called up before his captain and he busted him and I don’t mean he cracked him in the jaw but when a man gets busted in the army it means you get reduced to a private.
at bust, v.1
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 33: Nick the Blade is all wore out with them upsetting exercises and etc. and hasn’t got enough strength left to carve nobody.
at carve, v.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 87: I figure its bad dope for the officers to mix up with the men and play games with them and etc.
at dope, n.3
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 84: I put in a week on it [i.e. learning French] and I figure I have got it down good enough so as I can get by.
at have something down (v.) under down, adv.2
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 23: Then they give us an hour of drilling and that was duck soup for me on acct. of the drilling we done on the ball club last spring.
at duck soup, n.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 51: I have caught him looking at me 2 or 3 times and I had a notion to ask him if he seen anything green but what is the use.
at see any green (in my eye)? under green, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 140: A corporal has got to keep going and try to keep his men going and when you got a bunch of sap heads like mine it keeps a man on the jump to tend to them.
at sap-head, n.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 147: You can bet they was tickled to death to see our bunch roll in.
at roll in, v.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 69: Each one of the boys gets $3600.00 and that would of been my share only I loved my country more than a few dollars and I bet the boys feel kind of ashamed of themself to think I was the only one that passed up all that jack to work for Uncle Sam.
at jack, n.4
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 140: A corporal has got to keep going and try to keep his men going and when you got a bunch of sap heads like mine it keeps a man on the jump to tend to them.
at on the jump under jump, n.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 70: I was the only one that passed up all that jack to work for Uncle Sam at $30.00 per mo.
at mo, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 67: I took my first lesson last night and it is going to be nuts to learn it because most of the words is just like English only spelled different.
at nuts, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 137: I don’t know where they got it but everybody was oiled up and celebrating about beating Camp Custer in the football game.
at oiled (up) (adj.) under oil, n.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 16: The next time them wops trys to slip me something to eat or drink I will hang one on their jaw.
at hang one on (v.) under one, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 38: They hung a new one on us this P.M. Instead of giving us upseting exercises from a quarter to 4 till a quarter after they made us all run 20 minutes without stopping.
at hang one on (v.) under one, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 58: Some of the boys laughed at me tonight when I told them about going to attend the lessons but I will be the one that does the laughing when we get across that old pond.
at pond, the, n.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 9: They’s about 20 other of the boys writeing letters and I will bet some of the letters is rich because half of the boys can’t talk english to say nothing about writeing letters and etc.
at rich, adj.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 10: And if they didn’t have all the luck in the world they would be rideing around the country in a side door Pullman with all their baggage on.
at side-door Pullman (n.) under side, adj.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 19: A lot of the boys give this officer a song and dance about how good they can drive a car and etc. so they can get a soft snap like driveing one of the officers cars.
at soft snap (n.) under snap, n.2
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 146: They tell me the national guards is shy of officers and maybe I may not stay a corporal long after I get there but will get something bigger though a corporal can’t be sneezed at.
at sneeze, v.1
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 74: My command is made up of 7 men that I am the boss of them and they contain Sebastian and Red Sampson and Shorty Lahey and a wop named Janinny or something and a big stropper named Hess [...].
at stropper, n.
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 112: When a man is a born athelete they can play any game and especially a college Willy boy game like football [...] an athelete has got to be born and you can’t make them out of college Willy boys that stays up all night doing the foxy trot and gets stewed on chocolate and whip cream.
at willie, n.1
[US] R. Lardner Treat ’Em Rough 18: So all I told him was about me eating that sandwich and he says all the boys must of eat them and that shows how much them wise Drs. knows.
at wise, adj.
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