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[US] J.P. Kennedy Quodlibet 144: We shall get the custom of the [...] half-and-halfs [DA].
at half-and-half, n.
[US] J.P. Kennedy Quodlibet 148: We would whisper in our friend’s ear, that he has barked up the wrong tree.
at bark up the wrong tree, v.
[US] J.P. Kennedy Quodlibet 111: He walked toward the Drinkery, ruminating over his wrongs.
at drinkery, n.
[US] J.P. Kennedy Quodlibet 160: Politics has got into a jumble that a Philadelphia lawyer couldn’t steer through them.
at Philadelphia lawyer, n.
[US] J.P. Kennedy Quodlibet 126: Bring us a tumbler of water — tangle it [DA].
at tangle, v.
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