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[UK] Pearson’s Mag. Sept. 254: He thought he saw the means of getting square with the millionaire who had done him such an unscrupulous shot in the eye [F&H].
at shot in the eye (n.) under shot, n.1
[UK] Pearson’s Mag. 6 160/1: Why our old women'd have the blue horrors ef they thart we went further out than Old Harry Rock.
at horrors, the, n.
[UK] Pearson’s Mag. 97: Gee, wouldn’t it be fierce to get the rinky-dink for this, when I ain’t had nothing to do with it?
at give someone the rinky-dink (v.) under rinky dink, n.
[UK] Pearson’s Mag. 21:4 439: ‘That’s very kind of you.’ ‘Don’t mensh.’.
at mensh, v.
[UK] Pearson’s Mag. 24 6/2: McFarland now lost his goat. With desperate energy he lashed out in a wild attempt to locate the Britisher.
at lose one’s goat (v.) under goat, n.1
[UK] C.E. Mulford ‘Hopalong’s Hop’ in Pearson’s Mag. Nov. 🌐 This man gave him all the best of it just to tempt him to make a break.
at give someone the best of it (v.) under best (of it), n.
[UK] C.E. Mulford ‘Hopalong’s Hop’ in Pearson’s Mag. Nov. 🌐 Somebody in this wart of a two-by-nothin’ town is goin’ to run plumb into a big surprise.
at two-by-four, adj.
[UK] C.E. Mulford ‘Hopalong’s Hop’ in Pearson’s Mag. Nov. 🌐 I don’t give a cuss about yore grub an’ yore beds.
at cuss, n.2
[UK] C.E. Mulford ‘Hopalong’s Hop’ in Pearson’s Mag. Nov. 🌐 They’ve got onto it some way [...] but that don’t make no difference if you’ve got th’ sand. [Ibid.] I got th’ sand to go through with anythin’ I starts.
at sand, n.1
[UK] Pearson’s Mag. Sept. 616/1: Lay a finger on a Fift’ Avenoo Willieboy, or look cockeyed at a spark-fawney on th’ mitt of one of them eighteen-carat dames, an' a judge’ll fall over himself to hand youse [etc.].
at spark fawney (n.) under spark, n.1
[UK] Pearson’s Mag. Sept. 616/1: Lay a finger on a Fift’ Avenoo Willieboy, or look cockeyed at a spark-fawney on th’ mitt of one of them eighteen-carat dames, an' a judge’ll fall over himself to hand youse [etc.].
at willie, n.1
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