1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 209: ‘To tell you the God’s honest truth, I don’t know. I’m up a tree’.at up a tree, phr.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 46: Tonight, or this after’, when Ed showed up at the Apollo, he probably would be in a bad humour.at after, n.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 41: ‘I just didn’t want to spoil your evening, that’s all.’ ‘Applesauce,’ said Irma.at applesauce!, excl.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 119: If you don’t mind me saying so, you give me a pain in the ass.at give someone a pain in the arse (v.) under pain in the arse, n.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 118: He thinks Harry Reilly is a horse’s ass.at horse’s ass, n.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 157: [Y]ou couldn’t judge a baby by just one night two years ago. Maybe that had been the only time she ever cheated on that loud-mouth.at baby, n.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 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.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 160: 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.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 27: [O]ne of the Harley kids next door had a new Flexible Flyer for Christmas, and was trying it out belly-bumpers down the Harley driveway.at belly-bumper, adv.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 80: Boilo is hot moonshine, and Ed did not approve of it.at boilo, n.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 74: Please promise me you won’t bugger things up.at bugger up, v.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 163: ‘Fred. Her right name was Fred,’ said Lute. ‘Oh, bushwah on you,’ said Irma.at bushwa!, excl.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 38: ‘Damn few Caddies being given for Christmas presents this year’.at Caddy, n.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 23: 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
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 20: You had to be a good judge of what a man was, and the English was copacetic.at copacetic, adj.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 217: ‘Darn his buttons, anyhow,’ said Mary Klein.at darn my skin! (excl.) under darn, v.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 158: [I]f there was ever an easy lay she was it.at easy lay (n.) under easy, adj.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 188: [S]ometimes after a tour of the store the gang would meet [...] and show what they had got in the Five-Finger Grab: pencils, magnifying glasses, screw drivers [...] some of the things that would be produced by the proud five-finger grabbers.at five-finger discount (n.) under five-finger(ed), adj.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 115: ‘[J]ust between you and me, I think Harry Reilly is a horse’s ass.’ The old man and the young man laughed. ‘You do?’ said Julian. ‘I do. If you ever tell that I’ll fix your feet’.at fix someone’s feet (sfx) under fix, v.1
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 270: You should have seen the story! [...] I finally had to run a half a stick about it, but I killed the gushy part.at gushy (adj.) under gush, n.2
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 92: Go ahead. Ignore me. Give me the old high hat. I don’t care.at high hat, n.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 101: Yes, she had it a little on Caroline, or at least he thought she had; she was fresher than Caroline—to him.at have it on someone, v.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 256: ‘Come in to Mother’s with me.’ [...] ‘Like a whole lot of hell I will. I’m not going in there. I’m going’.at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 162: [of men] I gotta do something besides get up there and give these butter-and-egg men hot pants.at hot pants, n.
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 95: ‘Kitty Hoffman came in the johnny while I—’. ‘God, you women, going to the can together!’.at johnny, n.1
1934 J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 211: Then you get cockeyed and take her out for a quick jump and ruin the whole works.at jump, n.
1934 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 60: ‘[S]tay there till they close up and keep an eye on things, see what I mean? [...]’ ‘Kay,’ said Al. ‘Only too glad, Ed’ .at kay!, excl.