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Rally Round the Flag, Boys! choose

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[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 46: ‘You stone me,’ she said fondly. ‘I mean you drive me ape.’.
at ape, adj.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 142: What’s up? How ya makin’?
at how are you making?, phr.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 17: You think a built like that comes walking down the streets every day of the week? In a pig’s valise, buddy!
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 89: [W]hat was your plot – to hop in bed with me, hop right out again, and get home before Grace does? Wham, bam, thank you ma’am?
at wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, phr.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 152: All the Dub Hotchkisses looked at him with [...] awe. ‘A barn-burner,’ said one.
at barnburner, n.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 61: Remember when NBC tried to beef up their Sunday nights with important writers?
at beef up (v.) under beef, n.1
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 177: You betcher butt.
at bet one’s (sweet) ass (v.) under bet, v.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 44: May the Big Fellow in the Sky continue to watch over you.
at big boss, the, n.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 102: Fixing Guido with a bird-colonel’s glare.
at bird colonel (n.) under bird, n.1
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 50: We’ve had some tough town meetings before, but tonight’s going to be a bitch-kitty.
at bitch-kitty, n.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 151: You guys [...] blue-sky it.
at blue sky, v.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 61: A dame leans over ’em with her cakes falling out of her negligee.
at cake, n.1
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 156: You ain’t in love with Angela. You just got a case of the hots.
at case, n.1
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 171: Call me sometime and we’ll have a good chin.
at chin, n.2
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 54: Come on, we’ll have a few chuckles.
at chuckles, n.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 188: I’ clue you [...] There’s gonna be a rumble.
at clue, v.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 97: Civilians [...] Pudgy palmed, shifty-eyed., grey flannel crud.
at crud, n.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 55: We can cruise while we’re studyin’.
at cruise, v.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 102: I’ll have no nonsense from you [...] no cutting up, no goofing.
at cut up, v.1
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 151: You guys [...] run it [i.e. an idea] down, and wrap it up.
at run it down (v.) under run down, v.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 53: Dullsville [...] Everything dullsville. Geometry. Town meetings. Her dad. Her toes. Everything.
at dullsville (adj.) under dull, adj.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 217: This is the endsville!
at Endsville, n.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 134: Three thousand songs, including [...] Red Eye Whisky Is My Buckler, but the Bible Is My Shield.
at red-eye, n.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 98: Yellow-livered, money-grubbing, fat-bellied feather merchants.
at feather merchant (n.) under feather, n.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 54: Oh, flake off, little man!
at flake off, v.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 152: How about hittin’ for New York State?
at hit for, v.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 186: ‘Ah brought muh git-fiddle.’ He slung his [...] guitar aound his neck.
at gitfiddle, n.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 169: Still a captain? [...] You must be a bigger goof-up than I was!
at goof up, n.
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 43: She was always hacking around and yocking up a storm.
at hack around (v.) under hack, v.1
[US] M. Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 62: ‘In your hat!’ replied Oscar promptly.
at in your hat! (excl.) under hat, n.
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