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[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront [movie script] You should’ve taken care of me just a little bit, so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.
at short-end money, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 247: You was our first ace-man.
at aceman (n.) under ace, adj.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 243: He hated this smart-aleck priest.
at smart-aleck, adj.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 124: An agitator, the sort of smart-aleck who quoted back to you the union-stevedore agreement.
at smart aleck, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 49: People didn’t realise that it took something extra to go all the way with another guy’s life.
at go all the way (v.) under all the way, adv.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 42: Runty Nolan and big, bull-voiced Moose McGonigle, a Mutt-and-Jeff combo who did a lot of drinking and clowning together.
at mutt and jeff, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 25: He heel-and-toed along River Street.
at heel-and-toe, v.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 36: Calling their president [...] ‘Nickel and Dime Willie’ because his contracts with the shipping association always resulted in notoriously paltry wage increases.
at nickel-and-dime, adj.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 255: The gunmen and shakedown artists who had made the docks their own.
at -artist, sfx
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 40: Joey had been asking for it, that’s for sure.
at ask for it (v.) under ask, v.
[US] B. Schulberg Waterfront (1966) 243: The round-collar bastard leaves me standin’ here with my ass hangin’ out.
at have one’s ass hanging (out) under ass, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 250: Jesus, how I wanted to put him away.
at put away, v.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 55: Back up, Mac, I like the kid.
at back up, v.1
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 17: The men who [...] kicked back when they got too hungry to hold out any longer.
at kick back, v.1
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 46: He had been beaten for back-talking until his sight was only a shifting screen of shadows.
at back-talking, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 242: It’s like carryin’ a monkey around on your back.
at monkey on one’s back, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 82: Get off my back, sister.
at get off someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 48: C’mon [...] Let’s go get a coupla balls in us.
at ball, n.2
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 29: Runty Nolan, when he had enough balls in him, he could really give out with Galway Bay.
at balls, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 215: Remembering not to get into a word-wingdo with this trigger-phrased little bat.
at bat, n.1
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 98: Christ, what a gum-beater.
at gum-beater, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 262: It’s going to be a beaut — two million bucks.
at beaut, n.1
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 7: After twenty years of bellying up to the bar.
at belly up (to), v.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 49: They were [...] belting whisky with beer chasers.
at belt, v.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 256: Terry Malloy on trial in absentia and his glib brother Charley on the anxious seat.
at on the anxious bench (adj.) under bench, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 227: Bending an elbow in his everlastingly cheerful and malicious toast, ‘Here’s mud in the eye of Willie Givens’.
at bend one’s elbow (v.) under bend, v.1
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 190: An elderly Irish biddy [...] was being ejected by the bartender.
at biddy, n.2
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 17: At the top of the heap the real bigs like Tom McGovern.
at big, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 239: Do you have to make such a big deal out of it?
at big deal, n.
[US] B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 23: He [...] was only accepted by the big men in the neighbourhood because he had the good fortune to be the brother of Charley the Gent.
at big man (n.) under big, adj.
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