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The Tin Lizzie Troop choose

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[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 112: It was as simple as falling off a log.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 25: That a man’s life on that side of the river wasn’t worth a plugged nickel?
at not worth a plugged nickel, phr.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 47: Nearly had you where the hair’s short, huh, Stanley?
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 14: ‘Thunder and damnation’ said Stanley Dinkle.
at thunder and lightning!, excl.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 191: Personal basis? Applesauce.
at applesauce!, excl.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 168: You’ve made colossal, cats’s-ass fools of yourselves and me and the cavalry!
at cat’s ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 225: Only the Good Lord can help her in the attic, which is where she needs it.
at attic, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 162: You guys look after your crow-baits.
at crow-bait, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 126: Biddle, I’ve swallowed enough of your banana oil.
at banana oil (n.) under banana, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 186: I am one wheez-bang.
at whiz bang, n.1
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 185: ‘Well, I’ll be,’ said Carberry.
at I’ll be!, excl.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 117: I can go down from Mount Franklin to bed the bitches of Juárez!
at bed, v.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 28: They were clearly chronic ‘beefers’.
at beefer (n.) under beef, v.1
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 201: He [...] dashed downhill bent almost double and after two more bursts and belly-whoppers neared a stone pile.
at belly whopper (n.) under belly, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 155: I hate to waste her looking for a couple of gasoline buggies in Mexico.
at benzine buggy, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 174: Send down a truckload of mechanics – they’ll put on a new skin, the old bitch’ll fly again.
at bitch, n.1
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 167: He stared at the bobtail bunch of boys in partial uniform before him.
at bobtail, adj.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 208: The flivvers bucketed up the far side and soon drew away.
at bucket about (v.) under bucket, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 20: They will drive me bug, thought Stanley Dinkle.
at bug, adj.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 19: We thought it might be bully to have them here.
at bully, adj.1
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 125: ‘His lungs won’t take much more dust.’ ‘Bunk.’.
at bunk!, excl.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 27: ‘Can-openers, sir?’ ‘Sabers. The cavalry is a modern army, and the saber is dead as a dodo bird.’.
at can opener, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 207: Now we settle the argument once for all – horse or flivver! I say those tin cans won’t roll a mile before they fall apart.
at tin-can, n.2
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 16: His hair [...] was red. His other soubriquet had once been ‘Carrots’.
at carrots, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 200: I shall eschew hooch, quit tomcatting.
at tom cat, v.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 144: They caught your men with their pants down, evidently, and ran off with their horses.
at catch someone with their pants down (v.) under catch, v.1
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 176: ‘Say, that’s the cat’s meow!’ he grinned.
at cat’s meow, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 206: Dinkle [...] slapped on a saddle, and three men maneuvered the pilot onto the cayuse.
at cayuse, n.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 142: I’m supposed to escort you upstairs to chit-chat with the old man. He’ll tell you.
at chit-chat, v.
[US] (con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 159: He expected it to disintegrate at any instant like the poet’s one-hoss shay.
at chay, n.
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