1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 235: Through these insulting port-holes she stared at Sir Henry and blatted, ‘Maybe the poor darlings of teachers haven’t enough cash to stick it out here any longer, and they got to ‘scamper’. [...] Everyone, but especially Sir Henry and perhaps Roxanna herself, seemed to consider her tone offensive.at blat, v.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 25: We got the bulge on Europe not only in banking and university work.at have the bulge on (v.) under bulge, n.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 1: It’s his cluck of a wife that really gets me down [...] always criticizing some poor bunny.at bunny, n.1
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 106: Hay was a major in the last war, and a champ pistol shot!at champ, adj.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 164: Born here in Florry, but lived in England, and chummed with the Yankee troops here.at chum, v.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 186: They’ll make my ancestor Lorry the Magnificent, Serial One, look like a ribbon clerk.at ribbon clerk, n.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 1: It’s his cluck of a wife that really gets me down [...] always criticizing some poor bunny.at cluck, n.1
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 172: Nowdays he usually called Olivia ‘Sister’, ‘Cookie’ or ‘Helena Troy’.at cookie, n.1
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 183: ‘He would have been so useful as a singing cowboy – if he can sing.’ ‘If he can punch cattle.’.at punch cows, v.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 237: You fired him – remember? – for laughing when a dinky gilt chair busted under you.at dinky, adj.1
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 210: French drugstore cowboys and Norwegian artists and Swiss professors.at drugstore cowboy (n.) under drugstore, n.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 62: If you’re one of these independent females that insist on paying their own share, I don’t mind. We can go dutch.at go Dutch (v.) under Dutch, adj.1
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 245: But then I saw you all hated me and despised me for bawling him out – shanty Irish, flannel-mouth, nuisance!at flannel mouth, n.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 55: I’m going to get a D Minus in her class [...] She’d just efficiently flunk me.at flunk, v.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 1: He’s an absolute hick, and he’s about as much of an architect as my left foot.at my left foot!, excl.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 163: I’m going to collect as many facts [...] as that old gas-bag, Belfont, has in maybe twenty years.at gasbag, n.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 184: Just a country babe! Say I’d hate to write to the registrar in whatever hayseed county you really come from and ask him your real birth date!at hayseed, adj.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 186: They’ll want their orders obeyed on the jump.at on the jump under jump, n.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 46: Hell, I used to skip down to Florida, one time, and enjoy yanking in a mean tarpon.at mean, adj.
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 185: That woman has been trying to nab him. She takes advantage of his good nature.at nab, v.1
1951 S. Lewis World So Wide 111: So naive in believing that every woman ought to be a college-campus petter!at petter, n.