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(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 69: To a real Christian they were just as easy as falling off a log —.at easy as falling off a log, adj.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 69: To a real Christian they were just as easy as falling off a log —. (con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 182: I could beat that English preacher both ways from the ace.at both ways from the ace, adv.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 48: He would knock the block off any sneering, sneaking, lying, beer-bloated bully who should dare [...] try to throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery by dragging out a lot of contemptible, quibbling, atheistic, smart-alec doubts!at smart-aleck, adj.
(con. 1920s) Elmer Gantry 473: Mannie Silverhorn was one of the best ambulance-chasers in Zenith. A hundred times he had made the street-car company pay damages to people whom they had not damaged.at ambulance-chaser, n.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 125: A real gosh-awful turble bed of sure-enough coals.at gosh-awful, adj.
(con. 1910s) Elmer Gantry 270: The Doc lived alone, ‘baching it’ in a little yellow cottage.at bach (it), v.
(con. 1920s) Elmer Gantry 419: The hell-howling of moss-backs corrupt the honest liberals a lot more than the liberals lighten the backwoods minds of the fundamentalists.at moss-back, n.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 126: I’ll just be astonished, and get Mr. Frank Shellard in bad.at in bad under bad, adj.
(con. 1920s) Elmer Gantry 418: I know it’s a poor prayer [...] Meaningless. Like a barker at the New Thought sideshow.at barker, n.1
(con. 1920s) Elmer Gantry 404: So Frank, the belly-aching highbrow, has got as rich a man as Styles in his fold.at bellyaching (n.) under bellyache, v.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 29: Nerve of him, trying to lead me up to any mourners’ bench!at mourner’s bench, n.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 155: Strikes me we ought to know if this Bible-walloper is going to play straight with her.at bible-walloper (n.) under bible, n.
(con. 1920s) Elmer Gantry 436: That’ll give the blank, blank, blank of a blank some idea of the fun we’ll have watching him squirm.at blank, adj.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 148: After a certain point a man wanted to quit love-making and [...] bone up on his confounded Greek.at bone, v.3
(con. 1910s) Elmer Gantry 248: Bet it went swell, with you pounding the box.at box, n.1
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 46: Terrible thing, all right [...] and you just want to buck up and take it to the lord in prayer.at buck up, v.2
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 54: I thought I’d just like to hear a real big bug preach.at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
(con. 1920s) Elmer Gantry 424: Elmer had bullied him, roared at him, bulked at him.at bulk, v.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 185: I don’t believe all this bull about never having a good time.at bull, n.6
(con. 1910s) Elmer Gantry 287: And yet you see how bully it [i.e. a photograph] came out!at bully, adv.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 27: Ought to be ashamed of yourselves, bullyragging a Reverend!at bullyrag, v.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 113: Kind of a nice-looking young fella, but dumm in the head. Stands there like a bump on a log.at like a bump on a log (adv.) under bump, n.2
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 48: I never heard a better exhibition of bunco-steering in my life.at bunco-steering (n.) under bunco, n.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 159: Now I don’t want any monkey business about this. A preacher must walk circumspectly.at monkey business, n.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 67: The way she’d get rid of that buttinsky aunt of Nell’s.at buttinski, n.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 240: You have to deal with a lot of these two-by-four hick preachers, with churches about the size of woodsheds.at two-by-four, adj.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 167: This fool idea that a lot of these fly-by-night firms are hollering about now.at fly-by-night, adj.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 178: Wait till everybody’s gone — must have a good old-fashioned chin with you, old fellow!at chin, n.2
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 26: Heh! I suppose you’re a Christer too!at Christer, n.
(con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 123: I was in there listening about how she was in love with a fellow and he’s gone off to Chicago and chucked her.at chuck, v.2
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