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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz choose

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[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 169: The football crowd. Well, you know, drink chug-a-lug and all that.
at chug-a-lug, adv.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 182: Are we ever going to give those Argos a licking [...] Christ Almighty.
at Argo, n.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 195: They’re kids [...] and if you’ll pardon me they don’t know from their ass to their elbow. [Ibid.] 252: Mr Hershorn doesn’t know his ass from his elbow.
at not know one’s arse/ass from one’s elbow (v.) under arse, n.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 225: You’re being too arty-farty.
at arty-farty, adj.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 163: ‘Prosit.’ ‘Here’s looking at you.’.
at here’s looking at you!, excl.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 26: Some BTO my kid.
at b.t.o., n.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 185: You’re twenty-four years old. Don’t you know better than to go bareback?
at bareback, adv.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 60: Where among the modern belly-achers was there a writer to teach him.
at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 221: Three productions under his belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 199: This is the berries.
at berries, the, n.1
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 165: Boy, have I ever got a bone on tonight.
at bone, n.1
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 80: He’d say he had a bum ticker and had been given only six months to live.
at bum, adj.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 108: The cops took the kid into the can.
at can, n.1
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 127: Her cans were something out of this world.
at cans, n.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 80: Cherries are trouble, but married ones miss it something terrible.
at cherry, n.1
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 86: The Boy Wonder, Duddy thought, would not chicken out in a situation like this.
at chicken (out), v.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 117: ‘Prosit,’ Duddy said quickly. ‘Chin-chin.’.
at chin-chin!, excl.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 88: I’m no chiseller.
at chiseler, n.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 162: Grossman was a crap-artist.
at crap-artist (n.) under crap, n.1
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 199: Jeez. Have you got the curse again?
at curse, the, n.1
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 264: A diddle with an insurance agent.
at diddle, n.3
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 95: You think I’m dirt.
at dirt, n.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 209: They have their special little faggoty nightclubs in every city.
at faggoty, adj.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 23: Only ten years ago he would have had to sweat blood before he coulda raised a lousy fin.
at fin, n.2
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 132: For good looks he could have wiped the floor with Clark Gable or any other star.
at wipe the floor (with), v.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 168: Every time they take him into one of their frat houses he practically licks their boots.
at frat, n.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 129: Hugs and gooey kisses and a whiff of onions.
at gooey, adj.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 182: The whole house was permeated with goy-smell. Bacon grease.
at goy, adj.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 80: That one likes it the Greek way.
at Greek, adj.
[Can] M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 66: It’s a gyp. He should have been disqualified.
at gyp, n.1
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