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[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 135: In your Coll. Entrance Board exams you might run into some smart-Alec type question.
at smart-aleck, adj.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 188: She alibid all over the joint and then hollered not to blame her.
at alibi (up), v.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 17: I mean real meat-and-potatoe stuff.
at meat and potatoes, n.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 6: I do not go around handing out my cousin Leon’s telephone number to every Tom, Dick and Jerry.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 149: Mr. K. is wearing new blinkers – not for reading but in tribute to her avocados.
at avocados, n.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 139: This Zero is a ball-buster.
at ball-buster, n.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 134: A real looker with gorgeous balloons.
at balloon, n.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 182: Don’t let yourself be bamboozled by the deliberately tricky way in which the puzzle is formulated.
at bamboozled (adj.) under bamboozle, v.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 172: Being so helpful to the Klitchers about many various questions, I have one that is driving me bananas!
at drive bananas (v.) under bananas, adj.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 163: Well, that made Flo blow a gasket and before you know it we are having a slam-bang rubarb.
at slam-bang, adj.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 15: I thought about our old class some more – and the name of ‘Shemly’ Botnick invaded the old bean! [Ibid.] 150: Flo is no dum-dum. She has eyes in back of her beano.
at bean, n.1
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 147: Now he is full of beans and vinegar and with a whole new outlook on Life.
at full of beans (adj.) under beans, n.3
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 334: See you soon – with bells on! Here we come!!
at with bells on under bell, n.1
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 122: Listen to this story I dreamed up – and I know it can ring the bell money-wise.
at ring the bell (v.) under bell, n.1
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 150: She belts down Martinis like her stomach has a sponge lining.
at belt, v.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘ Herm’ 242: When this was discovered by a big cheese in the Swiss bank, poor Czermak killed himself.
at big cheese, n.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 5: Later that dumb bimbo returns to the line.
at bimbo, n.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 148: Before you can say ‘Bin-go!’ she and the Old Man are having drinks and dineing out.
at bingo!, excl.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 117: That screwball stuff about ‘Balogna’ and ‘baloney’ is for the birds, which we are not!
at for the birds under bird, n.1
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 15: ‘It is strictly confidential’ she blabbed.
at blab, v.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 93: Your addresses are a blast!
at blast, n.1
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 149: Mr. K. is wearing new blinkers.
at blinkers, n.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 115: The Shlimhoff blow-out.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 261: ‘Go to your room and stay there!’ Flo bombs her ‘Until you learn to behave with good manners!’.
at bomb, v.1
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 109: It was one of the Seven Boo-Boos of the World.
at boo-boo, n.4
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 188: ‘Frenchy’ said that Cornelia was showing too much of her boobies at parties.
at booby, n.2
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 17: How in the name of carnation some people go through life without their getting locked up in what we used to call the Booby Hatch [...] sure beats me!!!
at booby-hatch, n.
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 70: I do not clutter up my brain-pan with cockamamy stuff like that.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 209: Do you just dictate it off to a steno. that gives it such a breezy feeling?
at breezy, adj.1
[US] L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 278: I was so broke-up about this.
at broke up, adj.
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