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Bucky O’Connor choose

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[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 201: I aim to let Santa surprise you a few.
at few, a, adv.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 214: I’m a Chink if he ain’t carryin’ them same two guns I took offen him.
at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 240: I’m with you in the fling of a cow’s tail.
at two shakes of a lamb’s tail, phr.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 187: Sure, you’re a broth of a lad.
at broth of a boy, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 91: I don’t give a domn whether Megales or Valdez is governor.
at not give a damn, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 63: I reckon I’m holding all the aces, Signor Cavellado.
at hold aces (v.) under ace, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 213: ‘That’s the ticket, York,’ derided Leroy. ‘Come again. Turn your wolf loose.’.
at come again, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 46: That coyote won’t pester you any more. Will you, Mr. False Alarm Bad Man?
at false alarm, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 101: We’re going to laugh and talk as if we were the best of friends, but my hand ain’t straying any from the end of my gun. Get that, amigo?
at amigo, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’ Connor (1910) 237: You got a right to ante up with some information.
at ante (up), v.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 217: That round-bellied Papago pony in front belongs to Sheriff Forbes, or I’m away wrong.
at away, adv.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 115: He doesn’t want to bag half of us and throw the rest of us into immediate rebellion.
at bag, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 108: Del, you better relieve Mr. Hardman of his ballast. He ain’t really fit to be trusted with a weapon.
at ballast, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 108: You’re barking up the wrong tree, Mr. Collins.
at bark up the wrong tree, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 65: Turn lose your yarn at me hot off the bat.
at right off the bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 39: I’ll set my rangers at rounding up the border towns a bit.
at bit, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 90: Help us to get safely from the country whose reputation you black-eye so cheerfully.
at give someone/something a black eye (v.) under black eye, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 77: Blame it all, I’m getting to be a regular old granny.
at blame it!, excl.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 48: He’s the worst blowhard ever.
at blowhard, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 49: Cut out the water works, kid. You want to take a brace and act like a man.
at take a brace (v.) under brace, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 21: ‘Cheese it, or I’ll bump you off.’ The first outlaw drove his gun into the sheriff’s ribs.
at bump (off), v.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 207: It’ll save me the trouble of sticking up the First National and winging a few indiscreet citizens of that burgh.
at burg, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 20: So burn the wind, and go through the car on the jump.
at burn the wind (v.) under burn, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 244: When I heard shooting I thought it was you they had bush-wacked.
at bushwhack, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 180: These follies are but for a carpet lover.
at carpet knight, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 105: By the jumping California frog, I’ve got it!
at jumping cats!, excl.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 19: Not a red cent on the old man himself.
at red cent, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 148: I’ll tell you nothing [...] Chew on that a while, governor and see how it tastes.
at chew (it) over (v.) under chew, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 216: She’s a princess, Cork [...] Makes my Epitaph gyurl look like a chromo beside her.
at chromo, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 76: [on a train] The nigger just gave the first call for the chuck-wagon.
at chuck wagon (n.) under chuck, n.3
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