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Serenade to the Big Bird choose

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[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 205: From some of them you get a beat as dead as an undertaker’s handshake.
at dead as..., adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 25: A Mexican tenor on one side of me [...] and a coffee cake on the other that scratched fleas while she was singing.
at cake, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 164: Either this is a little epic all by itself, or it’s a goddam cheapie not worth hell room.
at cheapie, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 20: No use having her think she’d hooked a nice American sugar papa.
at sugar daddy, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 310: If she had dead-panned, I think I would have sat there and taken it. But she didn’t. She laughed.
at deadpan, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 150: We were fanning along.
at fan, v.3
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 190: The hook-up gave it what it needed.
at hook-up, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 292: When we hooked up, we hooked up for good.
at hook up (with), v.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 182: He may want you to sing at the Met.
at Met, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 15: I don’t think there’s ever been a man so moony that a little bit of a chill didn’t come over him as soon as a woman said yes.
at moony, adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 16: It hadn’t occured to me up to that second that she could be a downright piece of trade goods.
at piece of goods (n.) under piece, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 257: ‘He was a pixie, but he was also a musician [...] he asked us to his house-warming—’ ‘Are you a pix?’.
at pixie, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 192: On your car, plug the horn, the lock on the gas tank, the paint job, the speed and the low gas consumption.
at plug, v.3
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 192: Better let me write those plugs.
at plug, n.5
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 309: A middle-aged wop, with pot on him so big it hid his feet.
at pot, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 275: I gave my bag to a redcap.
at redcap, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 64: I lifted eggs and about fifteen other things from the rumble.
at rumble, n.3
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 166: He’s sewed for five years [...] from the date on the contract.
at sew up, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 208: That’s a tough order, just to stand up there, on a cold stage, and shoot it.
at shoot, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 86: I socked about a pint in the pot.
at sock, v.1
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 7: Down there you make it simple, because spig reception isn’t any too good.
at spig, adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade 190: I told them I could do spig songs in Spanish.
at spig, adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 16: It hadn’t occured to me up to that second that she could be a downright piece of trade goods.
at trade, adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Serenade (1985) 275: I zipped right out to a taxi.
at zip, v.1
[US] B. Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 87: You couldn’t find a better guy [...] And what an ACE with the women.
at ace, n.
[US] B. Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 65: There are some sad apples in every land.
at sad apple (n.) under apple, n.1
[US] B. Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 76: If the wise-apples could just decide now [...] that everybody has enough peanut butter and toilet paper.
at wise apple (n.) under apple, n.1
[US] B. Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 14: Before missions we used to eat at the big dog’s mess-hall, Number 1, with the colonels and the majors.
at big dog, n.
[US] B. Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 11: He was in the big league.
at big league, n.
[US] B. Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 17: I over-controlled the throttles, too much, then too little, trying to fly that big bird close.
at bird, n.1
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