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Main Street (1921) 42: Great fellow for chinning. He’ll talk your arm off, about religion or politics or books.at talk someone’s arm off (v.) under arm, n.
Main Street (1921) 42: Great fellow for chinning. He’ll talk your arm off, about religion or politics or books. Main Street (1921) 414: It’s just as sure as God made little green apples.at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
Main Street (1921) 102: The gang of boys from fourteen to twenty who loafed before Dyer’s Drug Store [...] whistling the Hoochi-Koochi and catcalling, ‘Oh, you baby-doll’ at every passing girl.at baby-doll (n.) under baby, n.
Main Street (1921) 50: I simply can’t understand all these complications and hoop-te-doodles and government reports [...] that these fellows are balling up the labour situation with.at ball up, v.
Main Street (1921) 298: You’re way off your base when you say I only like one kind of house!at off one’s base (adj.) under base, n.2
Main Street (1921) 280: Believe me, it’s us new business men that are running Bean Town today.at Bean Town (n.) under bean, n.1
Main Street (1921) 104: When she’s lived here for a while [...] she won’t go round pulling that bighead stuff on folks that know a whole lot more than she does.at big-headed (adj.) under big head, n.1
Main Street (1921) 221: It’s about a young man in college who gets in with a lot of free-thinkers and boozers and everything.at boozer, n.
Main Street (1921) 281: She was ‘all het up pounding the box’ – which may be translated as ‘eagerly playing the piano’.at box, n.1
Main Street 137: The walls of Mrs Cass’s parlor were plastered with ‘hand-painted’ pictures, ‘buckeye’ pictures, of birch trees, news-boys [...] and church steeples on Christmas Eve.at buckeye, adj.
Main Street (1921) 416: Next time you hear some zob from Yahooville-on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and bulling and trying to get your goat tell him that no two-fisted enterprising Westerner would have New York for a gift!at bull, v.1
Main Street (1921) 14: We land in a rut of obstetrics and typhoid and busted legs.at busted, adj.1
Main Street (1921) 389: She’s some charmer!at charmer, n.
Main Street (1921) 42: The old cheese there is Luke Dawson, the richest man in town.at cheese, n.1
Main Street (1921) 416: Next time you hear some zob from Yahooville-on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and bulling and trying to get your goat tell him that no two-fisted enterprising Westerner would have New York for a gift!at chew the rag, v.
Main Street (1921) 174: I can’t be enthusiastic over smug cits like Jack Elder.at cit, n.
Main Street (1921) 89: I don’t know what the country’s coming to, with these Scandahoofian clodhoppers demanding every cent you can save.at clodhopper, n.
Main Street (1921) 389: Darned if this bunch of cradle-robbers didn’t get hold of some young kids.at cradle-robber (n.) under cradle, n.
Main Street (1921) 200: My ‘crank ideas,’ he calls them.at crank, adj.1
Main Street (1921) 18: A fisherman in shirt sleeves and a wide straw hat, holding up a string of croppies.at croppy, n.
Main Street (1921) 164: He likes to have people think he keeps up his French and Greek and Lord knows what all; and he’s always got an old Dago book lying around.at dago, adj.1
Main Street (1921) 122: Maybe we aren’t as highbrow as the Cities, but we do have the daisiest times.at daisy, adj.
Main Street (1921) 320: Oscar kept dinging at me, and hinting I was a tightwad.at ding, v.3
Main Street (1921) 96: They think the broad couch and that Japanese dingus are absurd.at dingus, n.
Main Street (1921) 384: This contact with righteousness has about done me up!at do up, v.1
Main Street (1921) 298: It would be sensible [...] to pay more attention to getting a crackerjack furnace than to all this architecture and doodads?at doodad, n.
Main Street (1921) 50: I simply can’t understand all these complications and hoop-te-doodles and government reports. 308: What you need is to get away [...] and go to every dog-gone kind of New Thought and Bahai and Swami and Hooptedoodle meeting you can find.at hoop-te-doodle, n.
Main Street (1921) 224: The hard-working actors doubled in brass, and took tickets.at double in brass (v.) under double, v.1
Main Street (1921) 28: You’ve been gone and married this poor fish of a bum medic.at poor fish (n.) under fish, n.1
Main Street (1921) 123: I think that a St. Patrick’s Day party would be awfully cunning and original, and yet not too queer or freaky or anything.at freaky, adj.1
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