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[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 35: I got so all-farred god-damn mad at women that I never got over it.
at all-fired, adv.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 161: These [...] dancers impressed me as less graceful than a heel-and-toe walker.
at heel-and-toe boy (n.) under heel-and-toe, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 87: Your names will go ringing down the corridors of history just as sure as God made little green apples.
at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory 196: ‘He knows all about Freud, but otherwise he’s so dumb he couldn't find his butt with both hands’.
at can’t find one’s ass with both hands (in broad daylight) (v.) under ass, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 185: I visited the home of Hedda Hopper, a gracious battleaxe.
at battle-axe, n.1
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 112: He wants a pillow stuffed with belly-button lint.
at belly button (n.) under belly, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 78: Mr. Thomson joined us and was assigned to a bottle of scotch, at which he began taking heroic belts.
at belt, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 200: One of his tasks at the time was to fill out a ‘bio book’.
at bio, n.2
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 75: He prowled around a bit on the ground floor.
at bit, n.1
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 112: He put the bite on me for two dollars.
at put the bite on (v.) under bite, n.1
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 14: She in turn gave me a blistering.
at blister, v.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 43: John Darl was ready for another brannigan. He would be orry-eyed before nightfall.
at brannigan, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 115: I read that book. Had one of those unhappy endings to it. Only had one dame in it and she was a broad.
at broad, n.2
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 37: I’d cry out: ‘Gangway! Scoop! Scoop! Scoop!’ Then I’d rush through the bug-eyed tourists, toward the elevators.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 206: Once every month or so Fred [...] creeps off into the wilds of Queens for a bull session involving his good friend Alton Cook and myself.
at bull session, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 144: It is, beyond doubt, the biggest and most magnificent can on earth – a veritable Taj Mahal of toilets.
at can, n.1
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 17: This Sydney Smith was a caution.
at caution, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 160: She talks at a fearful clip.
at clip, n.3
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 183: You get all the restaurants and nightspots you want, on the cuff.
at on the cuff under cuff, n.2
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 43: We were a daffy bunch.
at daffy, adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 169: Mrs. Robichaud said she’d quit going to the movies if they didn’t have Westerns, and she told about a dandy she had seen the night before.
at dandy, n.2
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 141: Old Double Dome Brisbane.
at double dome (n.) under dome, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 204: Dopey, wasn’t I? But not too dopey. I wasn’t dumb enough to go back and tell Karl Bickel that Charlie said hello.
at dopey, adj.2
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 130: They spew out hogwash and sheep-dip from day to day, and they accept large sums of money for their daily drool.
at drool, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 140: ‘This is the end,’ she said.
at end, the, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 186: Muk’s [a chimpanzee] rear end is bare of foliage and gleams a fiery red its natural state.
at rear end, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 43: John Darl was ready for another brannigan. He would be orry-eyed before nightfall.
at ory-eyed, adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 141: The transaction was a bald swindle. Mynheer Peter was flimflammed.
at flim-flam, v.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 49: I’ve always considered Pedgler to be one of the great writers of our day, but he has a foggy noodle [...] his thinking apparatus is warped.
at foggy, adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 105: I didn’t intend to do any free-loading on you.
at freeload, v.
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