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‘A Sporting Man’ in McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 123: What happened to all the tanks I palled with years ago?at tank, n.1
‘A Sporting Man’ in McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 123: What happened to all the tanks I palled with years ago? McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 128: On some of the side streets there were brothels in nearly every house; Dutch refers to them as ‘free-and-easies’.at free-and-easy, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 88: Ass over teakettle [...] Butt, behind, bottom and all!at arse/ass over teakettle under arse, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 16: He got his back up and told them that he not only doesn’t like the taste of ale, he doesn’t like the smell of it.at get one’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 78: He’s certainly under the influence [...] I reckon he was bit by the brewer’s dog.at bit by the brewer’s dog under bit by..., phr.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 42: I’m a bluenosed Yankee, fed on codfish and cranberries.at blue-nosed, adj.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 80: Yes, siree-bob, friend, I do have a message for you.at yes siree bob!, excl.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 73: He is opposed to the use of coffins (he calls them ‘boxes’ or ‘bone boxes’).at bone box, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 49: I’m not long for this world [...] I give myself three more years they’ll have me in a box.at box, n.1
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 135: You remember the night you fought Boxhead Tommy Hansen at the Pelican A.C.?at boxhead (n.) under box, n.1
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 124: The best time to put the bite on them is to bunk into them at a funeral.at bunk into, v.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 233: You start out with ‘hell,’ ‘devil take it,’ ‘Dad burn it,’ ‘Gee whizz,’ and the like.at dad-burn, v.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 61: If all the perverted ingenuity which was put into making buzz-wagons had only gone into improving the breed of horses.at buzzwagon (n.) under buzz, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 78: The boozy, bedaddled old buzzards.at buzzard, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 151: I had a woman who had been conned out of eighteen hundred bucks.at con out of (v.) under con, v.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 52: Cowboy coffee [...] is strong coffee drunk black without sugar.at cowboy coffee (n.) under cowboy, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 11: I’m under no obligoddamnation to stand here all night.at god-damn, adj.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 78: Personally, I’m a dead-set vegetarian.at dead set, adj.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 125: I don’t allow no deadheads, and you know it.at deadhead, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 127: He says he has been called Dutch for as long as he can remember, but that he doesn’t know whether his parents came from Germany or Holland.at Dutch, n.1
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 28: He gave everybody a fair shake, and he didn’t have a thing to hide.at fair shake, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 125: I hate to bother you, pal, but I’m flat.at flat, adj.2
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 121: He slips me a sawbuck every time I hit him for dues.at hit for, v.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 72: It’s a souvenir of the Great White Way, sister.at Great White Way, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 311: ‘Hello, Pop,’ a young clammer said to the man in an adjoining boat, a sullen old man in wet overalls, ‘how’s your hammer hanging?’.at how’s your hammer hanging? under hammer, n.1
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 6: Although by no means a handshaker, Old John knew many prominent men.at handshaker, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 32: She is disliked by many of the hard-shell evangelists who hold hymn-singings in the gutters of the Bowery.at hard-shell, adj.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 177: The Boyaschutza call the nomad women rag-heads.at rag-head, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 76: They’ve gone hog-proud and hog-wild.at hog-wild (adj.) under hog, n.
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 129: People that really knew him, like me, we considered him ninety-nine per cent jaw.at jaw, n.
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