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[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 38: ‘But I’m afraid, Marietta,’ Clara J. was at the bat — ‘that I may not look well in ivory white.’.
at at bat (adj.) under bat, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 100: Clara J., the Bunco Girl! Did you hear her say, ‘John, do sixes beat fulls?’.
at bunco, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 54: In this manner, little woman [...] we give the mob the merry go-by.
at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 65: I handed back to Clara J. the come-on speech she had given me earlier.
at come-on, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 41: When do you expect to get those glad garments cooked up?
at cook up, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 63: If those cowboys ever grew wise to the fact that we were honeying they would immediately turn that train into a howling wilderness of noise.
at cowboy, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 24: Papa used to float in the parlor and cut ice for hours at a time.
at cut ice (with), v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 22: Percy dug up a dollar [and] gave it to Tacks.
at dig up, v.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 43: It seemed to me that everybody in the world was giving me the fish eye.
at give someone the fish-eye (v.) under fish-eye, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 11: I found one of these pale boys draped over a sofa [...] handing out Fifi glances to my own particular Pattern of Dress Goods.
at fifi, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 115: In ten minutes’ play those two fipps put all our bric-à-brac out of the show business.
at fipp, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 46: No matter in which direction I dipped, I was sure to fish up a ring.
at fish (out) (v.) under fish, v.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 37: Then they both chuckled and left me flat.
at flat, adj.3
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 101: He’s one of those fluffs who whistle for the police when they lose eighty cents.
at fluff, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 41: It was the most cruel game of freeze-out I ever sat in.
at freeze-out game (n.) under freeze-out, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 27: Isn’t she the wise little gazaboine, though?
at gazabo, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 118: Say, he had us going! When that boy wades out among the technicalities of the game something has to give way.
at get going, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 15: I left Tacks on guard and gumshoes away like Raffles, the busy burglar.
at gumshoe, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 12: Percy used to be a dramatic critic [...] and he had the reputation of being able to throw the hammer farther than any one else in the ‘Knocker’s Union’.
at throw the hammer (v.) under hammer, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 24: Unkind Fate gave me the double cross and my hoodledoo was working overtime.
at hoodoo, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 62: I’ve got a bunch of first-class smokes in my kick.
at kick, n.4
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 57: These three ducks are the worst kidders that ever caromed over a campus.
at kidder, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 12: Percy used to be a dramatic critic [...] and he had the reputation of being able to throw the hammer farther than any one else in the ‘Knocker’s Union’.
at knocker, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 63: We can hurry out some other way, get a cab, and lose them.
at lose, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 75: The hungriest looking specimen of a seashore newsboy I ever put my peeps on.
at peep, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 76: Just then a little old Dutch pickle floundered out where we were and began to bite the top off the surf.
at pickle, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 18: Over went the whole plazazus with a smash on the floor.
at whole plazazus, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 61: How about that brown-haired queen from Brockton, Mass.?
at queen, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 11: Seven of us were entered in the race for Clara J.’s affections [...] The other six were Society shines.
at shine, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ It’s Up to You 68: Through the kindly assistance of a bell-boy and a few simoleums we were piloted across the hotel to another elevator.
at simoleon, n.
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