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Reader’s Digest Nov. 31: I myself went on the road at 17; and remained there till I was 20; I thus met hundreds of ‘tourists,’ [i.e. tramp printers] or ‘roadsters,’ as they called themselves [DA].at tourist, n.
Reader’s Digest Nov. 31: I myself went on the road at 17; and remained there till I was 20; I thus met hundreds of ‘tourists,’ [i.e. tramp printers] or ‘roadsters,’ as they called themselves [DA]. Reader’s Digest May 106/2: Because of schmooze, the garment district is the most hypersensitive city of 200,000 in the world. . When a dress manufacturer steals a new style at 11:15 a.m., practically everybody knows about it by one o'clock.at schmooze, n.
Reader’s Digest Mar. 26: For the union, featherbedding has become an established business procedure; it makes more jobs for more members who pay more dues.at feather-bedding, n.
Reader’s Digest Aug. 98: This child wandered the streets every night until her parents, who work on the ‘graveyard’ shift, vacated a bed in the crowded home.at graveyard shift, n.
Reader’s Digest Oct. 79: No more job training ‘by guess and by God’ [DA].at by guess and by God under guess, n.
Reader’s Digest 115/2: She and the cans went snorting out, hell-for-breakfast after the sub [DA].at hell for breakfast (adv.) under hell, n.
Reader’s Digest Oct. 55/1: They have left the political bush leagues and are now in the majors [DA].at bush league, n.
Reader’s Digest Oct. 37/1: ‘Old Muddy,’ the Missouri River, was chiefly responsible for this flood [DA].at Old Muddy (n.) under muddy, adj.
Reader’s Digest Nov. 62: He was always slugging away at novel writing on the side.at slug, v.2
Reader’s Digest June 110/1: Harlem is ablaze with black-and-tan bars [DA].at black and tan club, n.
Reader’s Digest Feb. 96/1: And they’re stacking the scenery behind at a high-lonesome pace [DA].at high lonesome, n.
Reader’s Digest Aug. 160/1: A New Year party for me and you with a side of beef and a gallon of jack to wash it down [DA].at jack, n.14
Reader’s Digest 50 136: He’s an ex-test pilot who's got a job way over his head and thinks if he makes enough records with other people's lives no one will find out what a hollow-headed humbug he is.at hollowheaded (adj.) under hollowhead, n.
Reader’s Digest Dec. 150/1: All duded up like outlanders were Tildy, Hiram and the Kincaids [DA].at duded up, adj.
Reader’s Digest Mar. 128: ‘Oh, Lord!’ groaned Colonel John. ‘Another great story ruined by a goldurned eyewitness.’ [DA].at goldarned, adj.
Reader’s Digest Dec. 18/1: 241 [people] caught one or more colds [...] One hundred seventy-nine of them developed real blingers going through to the phase of secondary infection [DARE].at blinger, n.
Reader’s Digest 54 79: Grandpa was in the kitchen ahead of me, having his usual ‘Mexican breakfast’ of black coffee and cigarettes.at Mexican breakfast (n.) under Mexican, adj.
Reader’s Digest Mar. 41/2: I don’t think either of them ever saw more than a peck of black-eyed peas and a side of sowbelly [DA].at sow-belly, n.
Reader’s Digest Jan. 96/2: The Army Civil Functions appropriation bill—once known as the Rivers and Harbors bill and still called the ‘pork barrel’ bill—this year provided for 275 projects [DA].at pork barrel (n.) under pork, n.
Reader’s Digest Apr. 60/1: It is as simple and homely as an old tin Lizzie [DA].at tin lizzie (n.) under tin, adj.
Reader’s Digest Jan. 92/1: Nobody wants a saddo around. When you start to feel sorry for yourself [...] do something!at saddo (n.) under sad, adj.
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