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Awake and Sing! choose

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[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! Act III: In two shakes of a lamb’s tail, we’ll start a real fight.
at two shakes of a lamb’s tail, phr.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II i: What’s it get you? [...] a pain in the bustle it gets you.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II i: bessie: Look, he’s ashamed. moe: So’s your Aunt Fanny. bessie: (naively) Who’s got an Aunt Fanny? [...] morty: It’s a joke!
at Aunt Fanny, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II i: Like Boob McNutt you know! Don’t go in the park, Pop – the squirrels’ll get you.
at Boob McNutt, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II i: Don’t cry, boychick.
at boychick (n.) under boy, n.2
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II i: Don’t be a bush leaguer all your life.
at bush league, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II i: Don’t be a bush leaguer all your life.
at bush league, adj.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II ii: You put one over on that little shrimp. The cat’s whiskers, Mom?
at cat’s whiskers, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! I i: bessie: She made an engagement [...] he asked her. moe: Did he? Who? Who’s the corpse?
at corpse, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! I i: Work like crazy!
at like crazy, adv.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II ii: (hennie drops a knife, and picks it up again) bessie: You got dropsy tonight.
at dropsy, n.2
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II i: Why don’t you lay an egg, Axelrod?
at go lay an egg! (excl.) under egg, n.1
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! I i: Shut your face!
at shut one’s face (v.) under face, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II i: Put up at ritzy hotels, frenchie soap, champagne.
at Frenchie, adj.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! Act III: When they grew up they beat it the hell away like rabbits.
at hell, the, phr.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II i: Don’t bother with Kentucky. It’s full of moonshiners.
at moonshiner, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! Act III: Everything is peaches and cream.
at peaches, adj.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! II ii: myron: Now isn’t that funny, Big Boy?’ moe: It’s a pisscutter!
at piss-cutter (n.) under piss, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! I i: Who gave you such a rotten haircut?
at rotten, adj.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! I i: You also mean something when you studied the drum, Mr. Smartie!
at smarty, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! I i: Sure, kids, you’ll have gold teeth, get fat, big in the tangerines.
at tangerines, n.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! Act III: One thing I won’t forget – how you left me crying on the bed like I was two for a cent!
at two-for-a-nickel (adj.) under two, adj.
[US] C. Odets Awake and Sing! I i: No wet smack.
at wet smack (n.) under wet, adj.1
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