1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 61: You’re shell-shocked and you don’t add up.at add up, v.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 54: Don’t give up girls [...] Haven’t you heard we’re ambi-sextrous.at ambisextrous, adj.
1941 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.
1941 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.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 274: Balls with that ruining-me-in-this-town stuff.at balls to...! (excl.) under balls!, excl.
1941 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.
1941 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.
1941 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
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 218: He would probably get the bejesus kicked out of him.at bejazus, n.
1941 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
1941 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
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 129: Sammy was blowing them to a spread at La Maze.at blow, v.2
1941 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.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 223: Fer Chris’sake, you look like a Jew-boy yerself.at Jew boy, n.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 96: She had chased her share of brassy guys out of the office.at brassy, adj.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 14: I was letting a twelve-buck-a-week halfpint bulldoze me.at bulldose, v.
1941 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.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 111: Listen, kid [...] don’t think I’m having any cakewalk.at cakewalk, n.
1941 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.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 4: At best I was always on the Milquetoast side.at Caspar Milquetoast, n.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 81: Jesus H. Christ I’ve got it!at Jesus H. Christ!, excl.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 40: Hello, chump [...] welcome to Los Angeles.at chump, n.
1941 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
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 165: That, as Sammy would say, was the convincer.at convincer, n.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 81: The producer plays tough. All he says is corny, stinks or 1902.at corny, adj.
1941 B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 122: Don’t pull that Jewish crapola on me.at crapola (n.) under crap, n.1
1941 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
1941 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
1941 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