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Our Mr Wrenn choose

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[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 57: He dilated upon Satan’s wrath at Wrennie for not ‘coming across’ with ten dollars for a bribe.
at come across, v.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 164: I met a prof. there from some American college – he hired an automobubble and took me down to a reg’lar old inn.
at automobubble, n.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 26: Picture? [...] Funny ain’t it? – me barking for ’em like I was the grandmother of the guy that invented ’em.
at bark, v.2
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 162: Now, Charley [...] your bat’s over, ain’t it, old man?
at bat, n.3
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 55: Though it was so late as eight bells of the evening.
at bell, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 34: He had a nose like a sickle and a neck like a blue-gum nigger.
at blue gum(med), adj.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 30: She’s a bluff.
at bluff, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 160: Took to hitting the booze. Goglefogle fired me.
at hit the booze (v.) under booze, n.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 163: I will take a brace, old man.
at take a brace (v.) under brace, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 52: I don’t much believe in all them highbrow sermons that don’t come down to brass tacks.
at get down to brass tacks (v.) under brass tacks, n.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 234: She said [...] that she didn’t play Five Hundred, but only bumblepuppy bridge.
at bumble-puppy, n.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 21: I let him see from the way I looked at him that I wasn’t going to stand for no more monkey business.
at monkey business, n.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 50: Now don’t try to do me out of my bit or I’ll cap for some other joint.
at cap, v.3
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 108: I know about that caveman – Jack London’s guys. I’m afraid I ain’t one.
at cave-man, n.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 101: Mr. Wrenn, chewing and chewing and chewing the cud of thought in his room.
at chew the cud, v.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 198: It was great to be in England – though the people there are kind of chilly some ways.
at chilly, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 160: Just one drink, savvy? – if you’ll promise to get cleaned up, like I tell you, afterward.
at clean up, v.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 51: Except for the old Jews. They seem to be fine old coots.
at old coot (n.) under coot, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 26: Ain’t he the cut-up, mister!
at cut-up, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 154: ‘Have a good trip?’ ‘Yes, a dandy.’.
at dandy, n.2
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 76: Oh, darn it all. I feel rotten. I wish I was dead!
at darn!, excl.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 68: It wouldn’t make any dif. what they met as long as they were fighting together.
at dif, n.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 15: His head was again foggy with work and he had forgotten if there was still April anywhere.
at foggy, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 181: There’s going to be a vacant room there – maybe you two fellows could frame it up to take it.
at frame up, v.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 79: Gee! ... Gee whittakers!
at gee whillikins!, excl.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 20: Why, if Gogie had to [...] watch every single last movement of a fool girl that can’t even run the adding-machine, why, he’d get green around the gills.
at green about the gills (adj.) under gills, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 27: Me? I’d pinch the harp and pawn it for ten growlers of Dutch beer and some man-sized rum!
at growler, n.3
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 104: They sit around and growl and rush the growler – I hope you know growler-rushing.
at rush the growler (v.) under growler, n.3
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 146: I suppose he’s some tuppenny-ha’p’ny illustrator.
at tuppenny halfpenny, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 156: Hiking off to Europe, leaving a good job!
at hike (off), v.
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