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[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 50: Tonight, or this after’, when Ed showed up at the Apollo, he probably would be in a bad humour.
at after, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 45: ‘I just didn’t want to spoil your evening, that’s all.’ ‘Applesauce,’ said Irma.
at applesauce!, excl.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 122: If you don’t mind me saying so, you give me a pain in the arse.
at give someone a pain in the arse (v.) under pain in the arse, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 120: He thinks Harry Reilly is a horse’s arse.
at horse’s ass, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 203: She [...] did not report him on Sunday afternoons when he ‘bagged it’ to go to a ball game.
at bag it (v.) under bag, v.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 161: She was wearing a dress that was cut in front so he could all but see her belly-button.
at belly button (n.) under belly, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 162: Aw-haw. Big talk.
at big talk, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 83: Boilo is hot moonshine, and Ed did not approve of it.
at boilo, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 77: Please promise me you won’t bugger things up.
at bugger up, v.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 26: Al never heard anything about English and other women — and if English had been a chaser Al would have heard about it.
at chaser, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 24: You had to be a good judge of what a man was, and the English was copacetic.
at copacetic, adj.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 181: ‘Oh drop dead,’ said Whit.
at drop dead!, excl.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 95: Go ahead. Ignore me. Give me the old high hat. I don’t care.
at high hat, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 163: [of men] I gotta do something besides get up there and give these butter-and-egg men hot pants.
at hot pants, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 98: ‘Kitty Hoffman came in the johnny while I—’. ‘God, you women, going to the can together!’.
at johnny, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 212: Then you get cockeyed and take her out for a quick jump and ruin the whole works.
at jump, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (2008) 185: I feel sick and I would like to shoot my lunch and I would like indeed to shoot my lunch but I will be damned if I want to move out of this bed.
at lose (one’s) lunch (v.) under lose, v.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 222: The men were the victims of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago, when seven men were given the Mexican stand-off against the inside wall of a gang garage.
at Mexican standoff (n.) under Mexican, adj.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 161: Did he know what a unique was? A unique, she told him, was a morphadite.
at morphodite, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 219: It was possible, wasn’t it? that Lute’s mother had had a quick one with an Irishman or a Scotsman.
at quick one, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 248: ‘An unscrupulous woman can make a man—’ ‘Period.’.
at period, phr.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 153: It became very very easy to think of him as a stick, a stuffed shirt.
at stick, n.
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