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Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad choose

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[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 68: A man far away from home, sick as a dog, with no loving wife to look after him.
at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 118: Dad said: ‘Look here, Mr. King, someone has got you all balled up about the war.’.
at balled-up, adj.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 221: Well, sir, I have been in lots of tight places before, but this beats the band.
at beat the band (v.) under band, n.2
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 35: It wouldn’t be strange, after all he has gone through [...] if he was a little off his base.
at off one’s base (adj.) under base, n.2
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 129: Dad got a hot box, like a stalled freight train.
at hot box, n.1
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 157: Dad and I [...] are now winding up our career by taking the last degree, before passing in our chips and commiting suicide.
at pass in one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 55: You made the longest shot ever made on the Potomac. It was a Jim dandy, you old frog eater.
at jim dandy, n.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 20: I ain’t running a dude place.
at dude, adj.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 68: A French maid that is a peacharino.
at -erino, sfx
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 81: Act as though you were going to jump overboard, and then stop sudden and let-’er-go-gallagher, right before folks.
at let her go (Gallagher), v.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 93: ’Ells-fire, h’am blowed.
at hell’s bells! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 308: Holy jumping cats, but you ought to have seen the guides, yelling Allah! Allah!
at holy jumping...!, excl.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 129: You Johnnies are a lot of confidence men, who live only to rope in rich American girls, so you can marry them.
at rope in, v.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 454: When you play some lowdown trick on me, while I seem mad at the time, it does me good, starts the circulation.
at lowdown, adj.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 23: He had always taken a mess of pills.
at mess, n.1
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 66: I said: ‘Not on your tintype, Mr. Duke.’.
at not on your tintype, phr.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 83: The Englishman squared off like a prize fighter.
at square off, v.1
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 66: Dad was just going to get his roll out and peel off some more onion.
at onion, n.1
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 44: We got into the white house without being pulled, but it was a close shave.
at pull, v.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 20: Why don’t you clean out this shebang; and put in a new stock of goods.
at shebang, n.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 119: My Dear Old Skate.
at skate, n.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 348: You skip out to America, and come to Milwaukee.
at skip out (v.) under skip, v.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 208: He [...] wouldn’t take no slack from no Chicago female.
at slack, n.1
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 355: ‘I draw the line on Belgian hares [...] by gosh,’ said I, just like that, bristling up to dad real spunky.
at spunky, adj.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 453: Oh, sugar, no; you don’t need to go.
at sugar!, excl.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 471: I lost my hair and eye winkers.
at winkers, n.
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