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[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 61: You’re shell-shocked and you don’t add up.
at add up, v.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 54: Don’t give up girls [...] Haven’t you heard we’re ambi-sextrous.
at ambisextrous, adj.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 12: I’d like to kick his little ass for him.
at kick someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 164: Sammy has heard that he’s been a little burned lately because people are saying he’s losing touch with studio activities.
at burned (at), adj.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 274: Balls with that ruining-me-in-this-town stuff.
at balls to...! (excl.) under balls!, excl.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 140: They’ve got you by the balls.
at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 225: I watched you a long time. You got balls. You’re OK with me.
at balls, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 159: That was the month everything happened. It started crazy right off the bat.
at right off the bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 218: He would probably get the bejesus kicked out of him.
at bejazus, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 6: That spiel really rings the bell on my old man.
at ring the bell on (v.) under bell, n.1
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 188: You had to stick your neck out like a giraffe. Now you really bitched yourself up.
at bitch up, v.1
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 129: Sammy was blowing them to a spread at La Maze.
at blow, v.2
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 9: ‘I got a bargain on two seats right up in front.’ [...] ‘Someone bootlegging in the lobby?’.
at bootleg, v.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 223: Fer Chris’sake, you look like a Jew-boy yerself.
at Jew boy, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 96: She had chased her share of brassy guys out of the office.
at brassy, adj.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 14: I was letting a twelve-buck-a-week halfpint bulldoze me.
at bulldose, v.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 55: Sammy started giving her the business about putting her in the movies.
at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 111: Listen, kid [...] don’t think I’m having any cakewalk.
at cakewalk, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 81: The other writer is a Caspar Milquetoast with an expression on his face like he’s really thinking.
at Caspar Milquetoast, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 4: At best I was always on the Milquetoast side.
at Caspar Milquetoast, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 81: Jesus H. Christ I’ve got it!
at Jesus H. Christ!, excl.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 40: Hello, chump [...] welcome to Los Angeles.
at chump, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 9: That show must be cleaning up.
at clean up, v.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 141: I never held it against you for putting the clip on me for Rosalie or Julian.
at put the clip on (v.) under clip, v.1
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 165: That, as Sammy would say, was the convincer.
at convincer, n.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 81: The producer plays tough. All he says is corny, stinks or 1902.
at corny, adj.
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 122: Don’t pull that Jewish crapola on me.
at crapola (n.) under crap, n.1
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 61: What good do you think it’s gonna do you to crap around with stuff like that?
at crap around (v.) under crap, v.2
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 122: The Sammy Glick I met when I first came to Hollywood was a cream-puff compared to the one with whom I now found myself caged.
at cream puff, n.1
[US] B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 17: He was just smart enough never to crib from the same writer twice.
at crib, v.2
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