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Major Downing 23: They don’t seem to rip up worth a cent [DA].at worth a cent under worth a..., phr.
Major Downing 23: They don’t seem to rip up worth a cent [DA]. Major Downing (1834) 71: They’ve got them are wheels going now like a buz.at like a..., phr.
Major Downing (1834) 200: Cutting up capers as high as a cat’s back.at higher than a cat’s back, adj.
Major Downing (1834) 103: The jig is up with me, for as true as eggs is bacon I left mine at home.at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
Major Downing (1834) 206: We are all as mad as blazes about it.at mad as..., adj.
Major Downing (1834) 125: It’s like as not, the newspapers ’ll blab it out.at blab, v.
Major Downing (1834) 196: We’ve had a kind of a hurly burly time [...] I did n’t know but we should burst the biler one spell.at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
Major Downing (1834) 215: You was the first person that ever give me a lift into public life, and you’ve been boosting me along ever since.at boost, v.1
Major Downing (1834) 107: As soon as they set this afloat, it went through the town like a buzz.at buzz, n.
Major Downing (1834) 62: These legislators have been carryin on so like all possest.at carry on, v.
Major Downing 3: There’s a plaguy sight of folks in America, Major, and the way they swallow down the cheap books is a caution to old rags and paper-makers.at caution, n.
Major Downing (1834) 51: Not by two chalks, says Steve – I know which side my bread is buttered.at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
Major Downing (1834) 176: Shut up your clack, or I’ll knock your clam-shells together pretty quick.at clack, n.
Major Downing (1834) 176: Shut up your clack, or I’ll knock your clam-shells together pretty quick.at clamshell (n.) under clam, n.1
Major Downing (1834) 199: There isn’t a horse in this country that could keep up with us, if he should go upon the clean clip.at clip, n.3
Major Downing (1834) 179: I begin to grow a little kind of wamble-cropt about going to South Carolina.at wamble-cropped, adj.
Major Downing (1834) 174: Shooting is too good for him. He must dance upon nothing with a rope round his neck.at dance upon nothing (v.) under dance, v.
Major Downing (1834) 53: In some eyes there was [...] a leering complacency, that seemed to say, ‘you’re dish’d at last’.at dish, v.
Major Downing (1834) 158: I’ll [...] have him over the coals and du [sic] him over.at do over, v.
Major Downing (1834) 118: The poor Huntonites seemed to be a most dragged out.at dragged (out), adj.
Major Downing (1834) 119: That, or something else has kicked up a monstrous dust amongst other folks.at kick up (a) dust (v.) under dust, n.
Major Downing (1834) 119: There’s the Dutch trying to eat up Holland, and the Belgiums are trying to eat up the Dutch.at Dutch, n.1
Major Downing (1834) 119: Every body seems to be running mad, and jest ready to eat each other up. There’s Russia snapping her teeth like a great bear, and is just agoing to eat up the Poles [...] And there’s the Dutch trying to eat up Holland, and the Belgiums are trying to eat up the Dutch.at eat up, v.
Major Downing (1834) 94: The Advertiser flies up, and says, you no business to be a republikin, you’re a Jacksonite.at fly up (v.) under fly, v.
Major Downing (1834) 136: He got a gang of gentlemen yesterday to go with him.at gang, n.1
Major Downing (1834) 102: The bean poles turned middling well, though they don’t go off so glib as they did last year.at go off, v.
Major Downing (1834) 180: As for going to South Carolina to fight such chaps as these, I’d sooner let nullification go to grass and eat mullein.at go to grass, v.
Major Downing (1834) 95: Going? says he; why to bring ’em to the polls, you goose-head.at goose-head, n.
Major Downing (1834) 84: If this don’t carry it, you’ll have to hang up your fiddle till another year.at hang up one’s fiddle (v.) under hang up one’s..., v.
Major Downing (1834) 219: He’s a real mutton-headed boy.at mutton-headed, adj.
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