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[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 138: All the world and his wife had their noses plunged in some form of popsicle or candied apple.
at all the world and his wife, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 121: Who can get baksheesh out of an Armenian?
at baksheesh, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 45: ‘Search me, Buster,’ he shrugged.
at buster, n.3
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 121: ‘Button your lip!’ snapped the guide.
at button one’s lip, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 17: Take this chit to the Residency chop-chop.
at chop-chop, adv.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 117: The sort of sickly good-fellowship that prevails at a department-store clambake.
at clambake, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 79: It was most damnably hot.
at damnably, adv.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 122: Whosoever among you tries to hold out on me in the final divvy, him will I beat with a besom until his noggin rings.
at divvy, n.1
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 128: She [...] fetched me a lethal blow on the sconce, causing a goose-egg.
at goose egg, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 32: Midge rose from her chair as if someone had given her a hotfoot.
at hot foot, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 47: I aim to shoot squar’, but if’n you’re a wrong Injun – watch out!
at wrong guy, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 18: You certainly ought to set Singapore aflame with those immies in your head.
at immies, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 71: I don’t rile easy, but when I’m mean, I’m ornery as pizen.
at ornery, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 13: ‘About time those schleppers went to work,’ he grunted.
at schlepper, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 130: Wickwire and I made a desperate attempt to vamoose.
at vamoose, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman Westward Ha! 15: My wattles flushing a dusty pink, I extended my Pennsylvania driving license.
at wattles, n.
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