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Three Lights from a Match choose

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[US] (con. 1917–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 16: A stone sailed toward the liaison detail [...] ‘Hey, Lay off the alley lilies!’ he called sleepily.
at alley apple (n.) under alley, n.1
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 213: Pap’ Comerford, that used to be my top kick, was the best argufier I ever see.
at argufier (n.) under argufy, v.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 35: These Huns is bad medicine.
at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 13: Where’s Baldy?
at baldy, n.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 238: Them bastardly artillery men went an’ killed a couple o’ Jerries.
at bastardly, adj.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 246: Captain, I ain’t buggy like them fellers. Lice I never had.
at buggy, adj.1
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 187: Button your mouth, ignorance, till I get through talkin’.
at button one’s lip, v.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 113: Shells clanged. Spike tried to keep on, but after a few of those G.I. cans had burst near enough to throw dirt on him, he gave up and lay in the ditch.
at can, n.1
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 181: How the hell can I fire if the christly aimin’ point blew out?
at christly, adj.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 296: [to a Jew] ‘You clipped-nose son of a bitch!’ shrieked the officer.
at clipped, adj.1
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 69: The Greek and the two non-coms sat and shivered.
at non-com, n.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 178: Aw, lay off the comedy.
at comedy, n.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 156: The truck driver was off his conk.
at conk, n.1
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 290: The goose is cooked now! Come on! Let’s beat it.
at cook someone’s goose, v.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 140: I’ll give you the God-damnedest kick on the bottom that you ever got in your life!
at god-damned, adj.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 37: ‘Dog fight,’ answered Spike [...] ‘Bunch of Jerry planes meet up with a bunch of ours and they go to it.’.
at dog-fight (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 280: ‘Ready with the eggs?’ he asked.
at egg, n.1
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 200: Eye-wash means only one thing to him. That old sponge! [...] They’ve wrecked my car and come all the way up here with a hot-water bottle full of whiskey!
at eyewash (n.) under eye, n.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 254: Only ‘Glasseyed Ike’ there, washes his [...] ‘Glasseye,’ asked one of the men, ‘where the hell did you ever get that thing?’.
at glass eyes, n.1
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 176: ‘Go fan yourself with an alley-lily,’ said Rouge calmly.
at fan, v.1
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 154: We’re in a fierce hurry.
at fierce, adj.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 162: I seen it go flooey off the road while I was duckin’ fer that shell.
at go flooey (v.) under flooey!, excl.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 257: He’s too gay with them knuckles o’ his.
at gay, adj.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 161: ‘God’s grease!’ muttered Wally.
at God, n.1
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 139: And so we retreat in confusion, do we? And here are all the goldbricks!
at goldbrick, n.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 139: ‘All you men, git!’ he roared. ‘Up on the lines, now, every one. The gravy train is ditched.’.
at gravy train, n.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 95: He had only about forty men, three machine guns, no auto or ‘shosho’ rifles.
at sho-sho gun, n.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 237: This here Webster’s as good an’ nice to live with as a knock-kneed grizzly with a guts-ache.
at gut-ache (n.) under gut, n.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 152: What’s he gonna do? He’s gonna break a gut!
at bust a gut (v.) under gut, n.
[US] (con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 135: ‘Hey, ham-head,’ cried Rouge.
at hamhead, n.
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