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Runyon à la Carte choose

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[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 28: He is now a real high-muck-a-muck with the Gestapo.
at high muck-a-muck, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 24: I stake him to walk-about money, which is money for his pocket.
at walk-about money, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 94: Any action in the way of card-playing, or crap-shooting [...] or betting on baseball games, for The Sky is always moving around the country following the action.
at action, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 71: They are more interested in getting the come-alongs on Rudolph’s wrists.
at come-along, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 106: Many citizens are eager to string with her to hit.
at string (along) with (v.) under string (along), v.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 91: The playwright, whose play is now running along quite successfully and making plenty of beesum.
at bees (and honey), n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 129: It does not look as if the old rattle-and -jar can hold the road much longer.
at rattle and jar, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 142: Do you not just put the arm on me for it? Do you not just state you have an order for my arrest?
at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 120: Let us duffy out of here.
at take it on the Arthur Duffy, v.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 49: I will first make this big ash can eat that cannon he is lugging and then I will beat his skull in.
at ashcan, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 106: Crap shooters first breathe on the dice, and rattle them good, and make remarks to them, such as ‘Come on, baby!’.
at baby, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 22: I occasionally notice an old sack in the background who may be Marie’s mamma or her aunt.
at bag, n.1
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 92: I am not able to bankroll you to a very large start.
at bankroll, v.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 35: It is Katie-bar-the-door for the water front and the subs lying along the quays.
at Katy bar the door, phr.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 205: He settles the next night before we start playing, but he takes a good bath this time.
at take a bath (v.) under bath, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 23: He [...] gives me to understand that it is a bum beef as far as he is concerned and that he only takes the fall for others.
at bum beef (n.) under beef, n.2
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 13: It takes Ambrose several minutes to chill these beefs.
at chill a beef (v.) under beef, n.2
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 142: I am wondering why you keep beefing about the pay-off thing when I do not even dream of connecting you with it.
at beef, v.1
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 200: Kindly do not refer to our people as krauts, pretzels, beerheads, Heinies.
at beerhead (n.) under beer, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 101: Brandy Bottle Bates is a big, black-looking guy, with a large beezer.
at beezer, n.1
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 1: He says he will go out and borrow a Betsy off of Officer Gloon and blow the parrot’s brains out.
at betsy, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 127: Tell the cheese of police goodby for me, Finnegan, and the same to you.
at big cheese, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 142: The chief gets a call today from a biscuit by the name of Barbecue.
at biscuit, n.1
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 101: Brandy Bottle Bates is a big, black-looking guy.
at black, adj.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 2: He is what is called a dramatic critic on one of the morning blatters.
at bladder, n.1
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 61: The blats keep printing his picture.
at blat, n.1
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 28: I will be compelled to let out a bleat.
at bleat, n.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 201: I figure that Schultz pegs me for a bleater.
at bleater, n.2
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 109: I understand it is always about nine to five that you will put the blister on a new play.
at blister, v.
[US] D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 130: She is far from beautiful. In fact, she is strictly a blouwzola.
at blowser, n.1
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