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Valley of the Moon (1914) 243: A nice come-down for you, I must say, [...] a-cuttin’ up didoes with a lodger.at cut up a dido, v.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 243: A nice come-down for you, I must say, [...] a-cuttin’ up didoes with a lodger. Valley of the Moon (2004) 6: Look at your brother, a-runnin’ around to socialist meetin’s, an’ chewin’ hot air.at chew hot air (v.) under hot air, n.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 513: I’ll take your estimate for all the alfalfa you can raise on it.at alfalfa, n.
Valley of the Moon (1914) II 172: And what did the alfalfa judge hand’m? Fifty years.at alfalfa, adj.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 118: Bill, you got such an all-fired pretty wife.at all-fired, adv.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 451: One hand grasped her wrist, the other hand passed around and under her forearm and grasped his own wrist. And at the first hint of pressure she felt that her arm was a pipe-stem about to break. ‘That’s called the “come along”.’.at pull the come-along (v.) under come-along, n.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 77: They’s times when [...] I wanted to jump over the ropes and wade into them, knock-down and drag-out, an’ show’m what fightin’ was.at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adv.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 45: I don’t knock around down this way much.at knock around, v.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 195: You’ll get married some time again as sure as beans is beans.at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 171: ‘Where are we at?’ she asked them [...] ‘We ain’t at,’ Bert snarled. ‘We’re gone.’.at where one is at, phr.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 69: Next he’ll be sayin’ she’s crazy an’ puttin’ her away in the asylum.at put away, v.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 3: ‘I thought she’d got ’em again – didn’t you?’ the girl said.at have them bad (v.) under bad, adj.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 8: I’m just tired, that‘s all, and my feet hurt. [...] I’m just beat out.at beat, adj.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 235: Cal’s mother wouldn’t let ’m go swimmin’, an’ whenever she suspected she always licked his hair [...] If it tasted salty, he got a beltin’.at belting (n.) under belt, v.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 210: Biff! Bang! Bingo! Swat! Zooie! Ker-slambango-blam!at biff!, excl.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 175: The Head Cheese sizes me up, pumps me a lot of questions, an’ gives me an application blank.at big cheese, n.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 108: I’m some big Indian myself, an’ I’ll be everlastingly jiggerooed if I put up for a wigwam I can’t be boss of.at big Injun (n.) under big, adj.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 58: You an’ me’s goin’ acrost to Frisco Friday night. There’s goin’ to be big doin’s with the Horseshoers.at big doing, n.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 356: I know your kind – brave as lions when it comes to pullin’ miserable, broken-spirited bindle stiffs.at bindle stiff (n.) under bindle, n.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 208: It will give the strike a black eye, especially if Henderson croaks.at give someone/something a black eye (v.) under black eye, n.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 454: He’s blattin’ around town that he can lick me with one hand tied behind ’m.at blat, v.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 237: I oughta knock your block off for you.at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
Valley of the Moon (1914) 154: ‘You’re a bonehead,’ Bert sneered.at bonehead, n.1
Valley of the Moon (1914) 321: ‘Bosco. Remember him?’ ‘He eats ’em alive! He eats ’em alive! Bosco! Bosco!’ Saxon responded, mimicking the cry of a side-show barker.at bosco, n.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 91: It’s all right for Charley-boys, but a man that is a man don’t like bein’ chased by women.at charley-boy, n.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 414: Gambling for franchises and monopolies, using politics to protect their crooked deals and brace games.at brace game, n.
Valley of the Moon (1914) 72: The elder woman lay in bed, across her forehead and eyes a wet-pack of towel for easement of the headache she and Saxon tacitly accepted as substitute for the brain-storm.at brainstorm (n.) under brain, n.1
Valley of the Moon (1914) 284: We know how to do ’em up brown an’ tie ’em with baby ribbon.at do up brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
Valley of the Moon (1914) 322: She rams down about three times the regular load of powder, takes aim at the big buck [...] She dropped the big Indian deado.at buck, n.1
Valley of the Moon (1914) 198: The bosses are cuttin’ loose all along the line for a high old time. [...] They’ve bucked up real high an’ mighty what of all that killin’ the other day.at buck up, v.2
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