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[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 73: Nix on the Bubble.
at bubble, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 113: The next time you give a dinner party cut out that bug doctor.
at bug doctor (n.) under bug, n.4
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 75: The automobile is the rich man’s wine and the poor man’s chaser.
at chaser, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 62: I found him entertaining a German nobleman — the Count Cheese von Cheese.
at cheese, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 38: I’ll be daggoned if i didn’t see another board fence.
at I’ll be doggoned! (excl.) under doggone, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 37: Smoke Yellowfinger’s Cheroots and die lingering, but dopey.
at dopey, adj.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 87: First flop out of the box Mrs. Grimshaw [...] told Aunt Martha that exercise was the only thing to keep down the weight.
at first crack out of the box (adv.) under first, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 87: We tried to flag her and talk her out of it.
at flag, v.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 70: They are putting all our millionaires on the fritz.
at on the fritz (adj.) under fritz, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 41: Eighty-seven hack-drivers with tears in their eyes.
at hack, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 33: Holy mackerel! I’d like to see you travel over this part of the universe.
at holy mackerel!, excl.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 63: That miff is over here to pick out an heiress and fall in love with her because he needs the money.
at miff, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 49: So every once in a while Elsie moseys over from Plainville, N.J.
at mosey, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 63: He is the original onion collector, and he spends his waking moments falling for dead ones.
at onion, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 63: I was on to the Count Cheese von Cheese the moment he opened his talk-trap.
at onto, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 34: I took a little trip from New York to Philly last week.
at Philly, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 100: I suppose [...] it’s wrong for me to pull this on you about your own flesh and blood.
at pull, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 63: I was on to the Count Cheese von Cheese the moment he opened his talk-trap.
at talk trap (n.) under talk, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 53: He’s a horse trader by profession and a con thrower by nature.
at throw, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 77: And the automobile face! Can you tie it?
at can you tie that? under tie, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 99: After all the excitement was over and Unk Greg was sleeping.
at unk, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Beat It 88: Mrs. Grimshaw, who weighs 278 in her war-paint.
at war-paint (n.) under war, n.
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