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[US] E. O’Neill Beyond the Horizon II ii: I’ll come back and settle down and turn this farm to the crackiest place in the whole state.
at crack, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill Beyond the Horizon I i: I suppose it’s that year in college gave you a liking for that kind of stuff. I’m darn glad I stopped with High School.
at darn, adv.
[US] E. O’Neill Beyond the Horizon I ii: I’m durned glad you’re comin’, boy.
at darned, adv.
[US] E. O’Neill Beyond the Horizon II ii: Phew! I pity you, Rob, when she gets on her ear!
at get on one’s ear (v.) under ear, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill Beyond the Horizon I i: You’d best be hurryin’ to wash up and put on your best Sunday-go-to-meetin’ clothes.
at Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes (n.) under Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill Beyond the Horizon II i: Don’t know what’s the matter with the goll-darned thing.
at goldarned, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill Beyond the Horizon I ii: Hump! You’re pilin’ lie on lie!
at hump, v.1
[US] E. O’Neill Beyond the Horizon III i: No thanks to that old fool of a country quack.
at quack, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill Beyond the Horizon II ii: Gosh, I never saw a father so tied up in a kid as Rob is! [...] She’s surely a little winner.
at winner, n.
[US] Connolly & Lee in Horizon 300: The Negroes are jimcrowed as much as ever in military and civilian life.
at Jim Crow, v.
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