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[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 119: You’ve got to have the mon. or you get the laugh and the foot—the swift, hard kick [HDAS].
at give someone the foot (v.) under foot, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 213: Don’t mind him [...] He’s only acting up queer.
at act up, v.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 143: If he ever found out I had a lover [...] why, it’d be all up with me.
at all up with under all up, adj.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 233: ‘Oh—he’s down and out—eh? Why?’ ‘Drink— and hard luck.’.
at down-and-out, adj.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox I 208: Oh, he’s a wonder. Graduate of Trinity College, Dublin—yeggman—panhandler—barrel-house bum—genius, nearly.
at barrelhouse, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 123: I do what Finnegan tells me—just as Finnegan does what the big shout down below says.
at big shot, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 121: ‘Oh, bite it off!’ cried the darker of the two men.
at bite (it) off (v.) under bite, v.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox I 213: Tempest told a story that was ‘broad’. While the others laughed, Susan gazed at him with a puzzled expression.
at broad, adj.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox I 222: Not the clodhoppers and roustabouts that come to see us.
at clodhopper, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 100: I work hard all week. Saturday nights I cut loose.
at cut loose, v.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 156: ‘Evening, cutie,’ said he.
at cutie, n.1
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 327: You don’t look Irish or Dutch or Dago—though you might have a touch of the [...] Frog-eaters.
at frog-eater, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 272: I feel like a fool believing such a fairy story as you’ve been telling me.
at fairy-story (n.) under fairy, n.1
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox I 373: The mothers [...] knew what the ‘fancy lady’s’ life really meant. [Ibid.] 383: Dan [...] had attracted the attention of what Cassatt called ‘a fancy lady’ who lived two floors below them.
at fancy woman, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 190: One of those terrors of tenement women, the lobbygows — men who live by lying in wait in the darkness to seize and rob the lonely, friendless woman.
at lobby-gow, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 141: Terry was a ‘hard one’.
at hard guy, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox I 250: His vanity had got savage wounds from the hoots and the ‘Oh, bite it off, hamfat,’ which had greeted his impressive lecture on the magic lantern pictures.
at hamfat, n.2
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox I 209: As her voice died away he beat his hands together enthusiastically. [...] ‘She’ll set the hay-tossers crazy!’.
at hay-tosser (n.) under hay, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 135: You ain’t on the same level as the rest of these heifers.
at heifer, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 119: ‘Holy Gee!’ cried Susan’s new acquaintance.
at holy gee! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox I 210: We were going to try to make a killing at Sutherland.
at make a killing (v.) under killing, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 20: Yes, give me a job as a pot slinger even, low as that is.
at pot slinger (n.) under pot, n.1
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 123: Jim’s a small potato beside me.
at small potatoes, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox I 250: Bob, we’re going to let the pullet in on the profits equally, aren’t we?
at pullet, n.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 3: We’ll see how you shape up.
at shape (up) (v.) under shape, v.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 38: He ‘shot’ his cuffs with a gesture of careless elegance that his cuff links might assist in the picture of the ‘swell dresser’ he felt he was posing.
at shoot one’s cuff(s) (v.) under shoot, v.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 166: It ain’t the best butter—not by a long shot.
at by a long shot under shot, n.1
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox I 261: There’s going to be no skunking about this.
at skunk, v.
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 119: Ain’t this rain a soaker?
at soaker, n.2
[US] D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox II 22: He had evidently been ‘going some’ for several days.
at go some (v.) under some, adv.
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