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The Iron Orchard choose

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[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 127: I been loose as a goose all week.
at loose as a goose, adj.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 38: Some new boy that don’t know his ass from a ratchet.
at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 12: This ’yere oil field work ain’t no C.C.C. camp, son. It’s rougher’n a cob.
at ...a cob under rough as..., adj.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 15: That Brunner’ll have yo’ ass workin’ buttonholes ’fore sundown t’morra. Run you off inside of a week.
at have one’s ass working buttonholes under ass, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 48: Cap Brunner would make no mention of the error other than giving Pucketts a private ‘ass-eating’.
at eat someone’s ass off/out under ass, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 38: That big ignorant horses’s-ass.
at horse’s ass, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 17: Our local high Pooh-Bah is Mr. Scofield, the field superintendent.
at pooh-bah, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 397: Looks like you’ve got a real bitch-kitty here, Jim.
at bitch-kitty, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 137: Looked like he was about to unload on ol’ blubber-gut, then he just walked off.
at blubber-gut (n.) under blubber, n.2
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 93: Let’s go to the fire and take on a little more of Charley’s boiler acid.
at boiler acid (n.) under boiler, n.1
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 258: Get up, you brush-apes!
at brush ape (n.) under brush, n.4
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 137: Don’t kid yourself, button.
at button, n.3
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 296: What do you think of the ‘casa’?
at casa, n.1
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 226: ‘It’s kind of chancy.’ ‘I’m a chancy fellow.’.
at chancy, adj.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 211: Ort, I believe you got your chili up, pardner.
at get one’s chili up (v.) under chile, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 138: Looked like fer a minute that you and stud-duck was goin’ to fist city.
at -city, sfx
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 286: God, what a clam-bake. I came for laughs, but it’s really kind of embarrassing.
at clambake, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 108: Boyd Hallam [...] who Hoss described as a ‘real comer’.
at comer, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 148: I haven’t lost a cotton-pickin’ thing in Odessa.
at cotton-picking, adj.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 109: What are you, one of those natural-born crepe-hangers?
at crape-hanger, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 114: You ol’ crock-head.
at crocked, adj.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 67: I never seen such a run of luck. Them cubes was really listenin’ to me that night.
at cube, n.1
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 321: Leave off that dad-gum diaphragm do-majig, or whatever it is that keeps babies away.
at dad-gum, adj.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 221: Goddang clover, looks like to me.
at God-dang, adj.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 243: By stalling off suppliers and maybe pulling the Coker City rinky-do on wages. [Ibid.] 309: Don’t ever try to rinky-doo Mr. Delano.
at rinky dink, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 392: Jim McNeely was exhausted [...] and sat on a bit-box in the dog-house with his head in his hands.
at doghouse, n.
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 143: ‘Well,’ she said. ‘If we go dutch.’.
at go Dutch (v.) under Dutch, adj.1
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 137: One of these days a sonofabitch that calls himself Cap Bruner is gonna get his frame clumb. And I mean clumb good.
at climb someone’s frame (v.) under frame, n.1
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 34: You little bastard, you better not use no hot water till I git there, or I’ll frog yo’ ass.
at frog, v.2
[US] ‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 55: They’d figure you couldn’t take it and were gold-brickin’.
at goldbrick, v.
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