1975 L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 135: In your Coll. Entrance Board exams you might run into some smart-Alec type question.at smart-aleck, adj.
1975 L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 188: She alibid all over the joint and then hollered not to blame her.at alibi (up), v.
1975 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.
1975 L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 149: Mr. K. is wearing new blinkers – not for reading but in tribute to her avocados.at avocados, n.
1975 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.
1975 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.
1975 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.
1975 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
1975 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
1975 L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 334: See you soon – with bells on! Here we come!!at with bells on under bell, n.1
1975 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
1975 L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 150: She belts down Martinis like her stomach has a sponge lining.at belt, v.
1975 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.
1975 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.
1975 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
1975 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
1975 L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 188: ‘Frenchy’ said that Cornelia was showing too much of her boobies at parties.at booby, n.2
1975 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.
1975 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
1975 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