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The Fight of the Century choose

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[US] Siler & Houseman Fight of the Century 37: It isn’t as easy as rolling off a log to hold this job down.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[US] Siler & Houseman Fight of the Century 46: It’s a cake-walk for Jim [...] Fitz hasn’t a chance on earth to win.
at cakewalk, n.
[US] Siler & Houseman Fight of the Century 57: When he began to recover he asked the doctor to ‘chop off that dope,’ as he called the morphine injections.
at chop off (v.) under chop, v.2
[US] Siler & Houseman Fight of the Century 41: He was followed [...] by a curious crowd of ‘rubber necks.’.
at rubberneck, n.
[US] Siler & Houseman Fight of the Century 43: The ‘side-wheeler’ who dragged in Julian and Ernest Roeber.
at side-wheeler (n.) under side, adj.
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