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Letters to Young People 140: If you wish to be an ‘A No. 1’ woman, you have got to ‘toe the mark,’ and be less ‘hifalutin’.at A-1, adj.
Letters to Young People 140: If you wish to be an ‘A No. 1’ woman, you have got to ‘toe the mark,’ and be less ‘hifalutin’. Letters to Young People 141: You might just as well ‘cave in,’ first as last, and ‘absquatulate,’ for you can’t ‘put it through,’ ‘any way you can fix it.’.at absquatulate, v.
Letters to Young People 140: As I came with in hearing of their voices [...] I heard these words from the woman’s lips: ‘You may bet your life on that.’ I was disgusted. I could almost have boxed her ears.at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
Letters to Young People 141: But if you have a ‘sneakin’ notion’ for being a ‘regular brick,’ there is no other way [...] no sir-ree-hoss?at no siree (bob)!, excl.
Letters to Young People 141: You might just as well ‘cave in,’ first as last, and ‘absquatulate,’ for you can’t ‘put it through,’ ‘any way you can fix it.’.at cave in (v.) under cave, v.
Letters to young people 141: If you imagine that you may ‘go it while you are young, for when you are old you can’t,’ you won’t ‘come it,’ ‘by a long chalk.’.at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
Letters to Young People 141: If you imagine that you may ‘go it while you are young, for when you are old you can’t,’ you won’t ‘come it,’ ‘by a long chalk.’.at come it, v.1
Letters to Young People 141: If a young man should ‘kind o’ shine up to you,’ and you should ‘cotton to him,’ and he should hear you say ‘ by the jumping Moses,’ or ‘by the living jingo,’ [...] he would pretty certainly ‘evaporate’.at evaporate, v.
Letters to Young People 141: If a young man should ‘kind o’ shine up to you,’ and you should ‘cotton to him,’ and he should hear you say [...] ‘mind your eye,’ [...] he would pretty certainly ‘evaporate’.at mind your eye! (excl.) under eye, n.
Letters to Young People 141: If a young man should ‘kind o’ shine up to you,’ and you should ‘cotton to him,’ and he should hear you say [...] ‘cut stick,’ or ‘give him particular fits,’ he would pretty certainly ‘evaporate’.at give someone fits (v.) under fit, n.3
Letters to Young People 141: You might just as well ‘cave in,’ first as last, and ‘absquatulate,’ for you can’t ‘put it through,’ ‘any way you can fix it.’.at fix, v.1
Letters to Young People 141: If you imagine that you may ‘go it while you are young, for when you are old you can’t,’ you won’t ‘come it,’ ‘by a long chalk.’.at go it, v.
Letters to Young People 140: If you wish to be an ‘A No. 1’ woman, you have got to ‘toe the mark,’ and be less ‘hifalutin’.at highfalutin, adj.
Letters to Young People 141: If a young man should ‘kind o’ shine up to you,’ and you should ‘cotton to him,’ and he should hear you say ‘by the jumping Moses,’ or ‘by the living jingo,’ [...] he would pretty certainly ‘evaporate.’.at jingo!, excl.
Letters to Young People 141: If a young man should ‘kind o’ shine up to you,’ and you should ‘cotton to him,’ and he should hear you say ‘by the jumping Moses,’ or ‘by the living jingo,’ [...] he would pretty certainly ‘evaporate.’.at jumping Moses!, excl.
Letters to Young People 141: If a young man should ‘kind o’ shine up to you,’ and you should ‘cotton to him,’ and he should hear you say ‘by the jumping Moses,’ or ‘by the living jingo,’ [...] he would pretty certainly ‘evaporate.’.at shine up to (v.) under shine, v.2
Letters to Young People 141: If you can’t ‘come up to the scratch,’ why I must ‘let you slide.’.at let slide (v.) under slide, v.
Letters to Young People 141: ‘Own up,’ now, and ‘do the straight thing,’ and I’ll ‘set you down’ as ‘one of the women we read of’.at straight, adj.1
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