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[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 204: What’s the idea of all the bellyaching?
at bellyaching (n.) under bellyache, v.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 207: Snap it up there, big boy.
at big boy, n.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 193: When you were blue you got the howling horrors.
at blue, adj.2
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 192: ‘’Atta girl,’ he would approve. ‘Let’s see you get boiled, baby.’.
at boiled, adj.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 205: ‘For God’s sake, try and cheer up by Thursday, will you?’ she said. ‘Well, you know what he can do. He and the whole lot of them.’.
at you know what you can do (with...), phr.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 200: ‘Once I had a gal,’ he said, ‘used to try and throw herself out of the window every time she got a can on. Jee-zuss’.
at get a can on (v.) under can, n.1
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 195: ‘Like a drink before you go?’ she asked. ‘Cockeyed again for a change, aren’t you?’ he said. ‘That’s nice. Sure, get a couple of shots, will you?’.
at cock-eyed, adj.2
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 191: Ah, come on, Herb, you’ve had enough, haven’t you? You’ll feel something terrible in the morning.
at come on!, excl.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 202: I just take five grains [...] Five grains, and you cork off pretty.
at cork off (v.) under cork, v.1
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 195: God damn it, I’m through, I’m telling you.
at god-damn it!, excl.
[US] D. Parker ‘The Last Tea’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 185: She’s probably got about a million dates.
at date, n.1
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 194: ‘Some dizzy blonde, eh?’ he would say. ‘Some doll.’.
at dizzy, adj.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 194: ‘Some dizzy blonde, eh?’ he would say. ‘Some doll.’.
at doll, n.1
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 209: The doctor, he says he could have you arrested, doin’ a thing like that. He was fit to be tied.
at fit to be tied under fit to..., phr.
[US] D. Parker ‘The Last Tea’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 183: I must have been fried pretty.
at fried, adj.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 200: ‘Once I had a gal,’ he said, ‘used to try and throw herself out of the window every time she got a can on. Jee-zuss.’.
at gal, n.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 191: Ah, come on, Herb, you’ve had enough, haven’t you? You’ll feel something terrible in the morning.
at have had enough (v.) under have, v.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 199: Why the hell don’t you stay home and not go spoiling everybody’s evening?
at hell, the, phr.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 199: There was Mrs. Florence Miller who got regular crying jags, and the men sought only to cheer and comfort her.
at jag, n.1
[US] D. Parker ‘The Last Tea’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 182: It gave me the jumps, thinking about going down there and sitting at that desk.
at jumps, the, n.
[US] D. Parker ‘The Last Tea’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 182: I’m off the stuff for life.
at off, prep.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 190: What am I expected to do—sit around this dump on my tail all night?
at sit on one’s ass (v.) under sit on, v.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 194: ‘What the hell do you do with it?’ he would say. ‘Shoot it all on Scotch?’.
at shoot, v.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 195: ‘Like a drink before you go?’ she asked. ‘Cockeyed again for a change, aren’t you?’ he said. ‘That’s nice. Sure, get a couple of shots, will you?’.
at shot, n.1
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 190: He would slam out of the flat and come back late and drunk.
at slam, v.1
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 199: Well, slip us a little smile, then. That’s my girl.
at slip, v.2
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 196: What you need—you need a little snifter.
at snifter, n.2
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 195: She went to the pantry, mixed him a stiff highball.
at stiff, adj.
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 196: ‘You need a little snifter. How about it?’ ‘Yeah,’ she said. ‘Just straight.’.
at straight, adj.2
[US] D. Parker ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 199: Nobody wants to hear other people’s troubles, sweetie.
at sweetie, n.
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