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The Sorrows of a Showgirl choose

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[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xviii: Something has gone wrong, or there is a big hen on.
at hen is on, a, phr.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xii: The benefit for the chorus girls has gone up in the air, for none of them would acknowledge that they were chorus girls.
at go up in the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. ii: ‘No knocking or nothing; just sit and talk real friendly like.’ ‘That’s the idea and if anyone starts the anvil chorus they get the skiddo.’.
at anvil chorus, n.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. iv: If this person would [...] stop trying to be a very dear friend to the whole bald-headed department during the opening chorus, she’d be all right and might get a job with a medicine show.
at bald-headed row (n.) under bald-headed, adj.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xvi: You, of course [...] naturally look upon those people who were brought up on such stuff as balloon juice merchants.
at balloon juice (n.) under balloon, n.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl 12: I didn’t pay any attention to his chatter, thinking it nothing but balloon juice.
at balloon juice (n.) under balloon, n.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. x: Tell the barhop to mix me up a life preserver in a rose glass.
at bar-hop, n.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xiv: It is something fierce the way these reformers are trying to put the bee on our pleasures.
at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. ii: Say, that piece of work that stands on the end opposite you is all to the berries, ain’t she?
at berries, the, n.1
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xv: Give the waiter your hat, coat and vest and bevy in.
at bevvy, v.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xx: Wilbur’s got the wise guys so leary for fear he will tip his mitt and they naturally slip him a big one every time they get a chance.
at big one, n.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. vii: One of the young ladies inadvertently remarked that there was to be big doings at a nearby hall.
at big doing, n.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. vi: We capered blithely out to the machine, climbed in and hiked for the blind tiger.
at blind tiger, n.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. viii: It’s beautiful billiards all right for the time being, but I always feel so on the blink the next morning.
at on the blink (adj.) under blink, n.1
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xviii: Work the remorse gag before they have a chance to get a bracer for their hangover.
at bracer, n.1
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. ix: Everybody had a large bunch of fun kidding me about my inheritance till I was nearly bug.
at bug, adj.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. ii: She had to have Wilbur [...] go out and put a bug on the Ginny before she would allow the flag to drop.
at put a bug on (v.) under bug, n.4
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. ix: The Dutchman in the delicatessen don’t think you are a bug when you ask for Summer sausage.
at bug, n.1
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xix: I says to him, ‘What license you got to give a lady a bum steer like that?’.
at bum steer (n.) under bum, adj.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xx: As I was going to kick into some other country that I wasn’t hep to I naturally felt kind of bumly.
at bumly, adj.1
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xiii: One of the girls that dresses in the same room with me came in with one of those crying buns on.
at bun, n.2
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xv: I got every John in town so bunked that every time they see me coming they take it on the run for some place that I can’t get to ’em.
at bunk, v.3
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xvii: I landed this buzz wagon out of a ten dollar pike bet.
at buzzwagon (n.) under buzz, n.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. x: The girls down at Wilbur’s show decided to give a beefsteak in honor of the prima donna getting the can.
at get the can (v.) under can, n.1
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xvii: He gives me a twenty case note and the card.
at case dough (n.) under case, adj.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. i: It was a college town and the show was on the blink. ’Nough said.
at nuff ced, phr.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xi: The other two acts may be on the cheese, but the first act is good.
at on the cheese under cheese, n.1
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xvi: Cheese, there’s a bike cop. Can you loose him?
at cheese!, excl.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xi: She put on such a front and chest that she wouldn’t speak to any of the other girls.
at chest, adj.
[US] K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xix: I just lost five hundred cold ones by the deal.
at cold one, n.1
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