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[US] S.J. Perelman ‘No Dearth of Mirth’ Keep It Crisp 83: We’ve got to winnow out the ragtag and bobtail.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Take Two Parts Sand, One Part Girl’ in Keep It Crisp 90: It’s poetic and yet it’s timely too! It’s a blockbuster, V.J.!
at blockbuster, n.1
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth’ in Keep It Crisp 139: Hiya Jackson. What’s buzzin’, cousin?
at what’s buzzin’ cousin? under buzz, v.1
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Hell In the Gaberdines’ in Keep It Crisp 7: Well, I guess you caught me with my pants down.
at catch someone with their pants down (v.) under catch, v.1
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘No Dearth of Mirth’ in Keep It Crisp 83: It’s the cat’s pyjamas – a peachamaroot!
at cat’s pyjamas, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Take Two Parts Sand, One Part Girl’ in Keep It Crisp 91: A show girl with a real nifty chassis.
at chassis, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Keep It Crisp 139: milo: Is that some more of your newfangled college slang? rapier: Don’t be a sherbet, Herbert, [...] What’s cookin’, good-lookin’?
at what’s cooking? under cook, v.1
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Pale Hands I Loathe’ in Keep It Crisp 72: O.K., Carlson, your goose is cooked.
at cook someone’s goose, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘If An In-Law Meet An Outlaw’ in Keep It Crisp 158: He’ll never amount to a damn.
at damn, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘If An In-Law Meet An Outlaw’ in Keep It Crisp 156: Damn my eyes, sir, she was as pretty as a peony.
at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Take Two Parts Sand, One Part Girl’ in Keep It Crisp 91: We got darb. (Producing two photographs).
at darb, n.1
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Sleepy-Time Extra’ in Keep It Crisp 110: ‘Well, dog my cats!’ I exclaimed, struck all of a heap.
at dog my cat(s)/doggone/hide/melts! (excl.) under dog, v.2
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Farewell, My Lovely Appetiser’ in Keep It Crisp 9: Snapper Driscoll had retired two years before with a .38 slug between the shoulders.
at thirty-eight, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘No Dearth of Mirth’ in Keep It Crisp 83: It’s the cat’s pyjamas – a peachamaroot!
at -eroonie, sfx
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth’ in Keep It Crisp 140: Get in the groove, fatso.
at fatso, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Farewell, My Lovely Appetiser’ in Keep It Crisp 9: I [...] set fire to a cigarette.
at fire, v.2
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth’ in Keep It Crisp 140: My boy, the Weatherwax union has blown a gasket.
at blow a gasket (v.) under gasket, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth’ in Keep It Crisp 140: Get in the groove, fatso. I don’t latch on to that long-hair schmaltz.
at in the groove (adj.) under groove, n.2
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth’ in Keep It Crisp 140: Look, guv’nor [...] aw cripes, can I ask you something man to man?
at guvnor, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Sleepy-Time Extra’ Keep It Crisp 110: One morning in early April, hell started popping.
at hell’s a popping under hell, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘So Little Time Marches On’ in Keep It Crisp 29: The guest who so far forgot himself as to exclaim ‘Hot puppies!’ and fill his pockets with the baubles was rarely invited again.
at hot puppy! (excl.) under hot, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘The Customer Is Always Wrong’ Keep It Crisp 105: By jiminy, I’ll padlock the joint!
at by jiminy! (excl.) under jiminy!, excl.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth’ in Keep It Crisp 141: You wear the keenest threads on the campus.
at keen, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Pull Devil’ Keep It Crisp 135: Hasta luego, kiddo, and keep your nose clean.
at kiddo, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘The Longer the Lip’ in Keep It Crisp 153: ‘That hits me where I live, fellow,’ I said shyly.
at where one lives under live, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth’ in Keep It Crisp 140: Get in the groove, fatso. I don’t latch on to that long-hair schmaltz.
at longhaired, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Farewell, My Lovely Appetiser’ in Keep It Crisp 12: I haven’t been a private op nine years for nothing.
at op, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Farewell, My Lovely Appetiser’ in Keep It Crisp 15: Reach for the stratosphere, gumshoe.
at reach for the sky (v.) under reach, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘Farewell, My Lovely Appetiser’ in Keep It Crisp 13: She trailed past me in a cloud of scent that retailed at ninety rugs the ounce.
at rug, n.2
[US] S.J. Perelman ‘The Customer Is Always Right’ in Keep It Crisp 109: Next time you visit this fleabag, you will be greeted by a lobbyful of schlemiehls and nincompoops that will curl your hair.
at schlemiel, n.
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