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[US] Scribner’s Monthly July 277: For a young city, San Francisco is very much wedded to petty traditions. It clings to the bit with a deathlike tenacity; clings to it against all reason and against its own interests. The bit is a mythical quantity. It is neither twelve and a half cents, nor half of twenty-five; it is neither fifteen cents nor ten cents. If you buy a bit’s worth, and throw down twenty-five cents, you get ten cents back; if you offer the same ten cents in lieu of a bit, you are looked upon as a mild sort of swindler. And yet, the bit is the standard of minimum monetary value [F&H].
at bit, n.1
[US] Scribner’s Monthly X 277/1: A man who is hurt in a mining transaction is ‘cinched’ [DA].
at cinch, v.
[US] Scribner’s Monthly X 277/1: ‘Cleano out,’ ‘freeze out,’ are synonyms for rascally operations in business [DA].
at freeze-out, n.
[US] Scribner’s Monthly Nov. 142/1: Said he, perversely, ‘Now yer shoutin’!’ [DA].
at now you’re shouting, phr.
[US] Scribner’s Monthly Apr. 820/1: [Etagères] are a little gone off in these days, serving no real use but only to put futile bits of glass and china on for the housemaid to break [DA].
at off, adv.1
[US] Scribner’s Monthly Apr. 911/2: The stockholders and directors, the ‘car-starters’ and ‘spotters,’ [...] were all embalmed in verse and immortalized in song [DA].
at spotter, n.1
[US] Scribner’s Monthly Apr. 838/1: He consented finally to allow another printer to take his place in the ‘Clarion’ office—temporarily, and as his ‘sub’ only [DA].
at sub, n.1
[US] Scribner’s Monthly July 400: This whole matter of tipping waiters, and of waiters expecting to be tipped, is a very marked manifestation of the poison of pauperism [F&H].
at tip, v.1
[US] Scribner’s Monthly XV 812/1: Ye went back on her, and shook her, and played on her, and gave her away—dead away! [DA].
at play, v.
[US] Scribner’s Monthly Oct. 834/2: By exercising skill and judgement, or ‘bullhead luck,’ as an old veteran of the pass calls it, a little execution may be done.
at bullhead luck, n.
[US] Scribner’s Monthly Aug. 506: With no other let or hindrance than those which the gory pot-hunters compel [F&H].
at pot-hunter, n.2
[US] Scribner’s Monthly viii 465: The first lieutenant is yarning with me under the lea of the bulwarks [F&H].
at yarn, v.
[US] Scribner’s Monthly Mar. 655: I’ve heard my father play it at Arrah, and shook a foot myself with the lads on the green [F&H].
at shake a leg (v.) under shake, v.
[US] Scribner’s Monthly (N.Y.) XIX 496: In the parlors the costumes of the wheelmen seemed not so much out of place as they were pleasing.
at wheelman, n.
[US] Scribner’s Monthly XXII 217/2: On ‘loaf-days’ the hands occupy themselves with making the neat cans which it is their [...] business to fill [DA].
at loaf, n.1
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