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The Bruiser choose

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[US] J. Tully Bruiser 219: I remember lookin’ at him, and me drunk as an owl on sacred wine.
at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 196: He was a broth of a boy – weak as water and strong as a broken dam.
at broth of a boy, n.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 35: A gut who can tear Maley to pieces is aces up with me.
at aces, adj.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 137: They were the familiar ‘bindle stiffs’ or men who carried bundles in a wandering world.
at bindle stiff (n.) under bindle, n.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 165: He [...] sent for Blinky Miller, who was now blind in one eye.
at blink, n.1
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 68: There ain’t nobody knockin’ this bozo out of the ring.
at bozo, n.1
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 115: ‘He’s been fightin’ too often,’ said Silent Tim, ‘I’ll give him a rest.’ [...] ‘He’s not burnt out, I hope.’.
at burned out, adj.1
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 55: I think we’d better bust up.
at bust up, v.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 29: Cut me in on another hundred of that – and another century that if there’s a knockout Rory here’ll land it.
at century, n.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 146: The cinch bug, the Hessian fly, the locust of old, he fought all in turn.
at chinch, n.1
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 38: I’m clean as a whistle – bet my whole end of the purse.
at clean, adj.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 69: Maybe he got him cold.
at cold, adv.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 105: Silvers couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag.
at couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag under couldn’t..., phr.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 214: If they crack a suit, he’ll lose to Sully – he’s that high geared.
at crack, v.3
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 253: A chance – for cripes sake – he’d have a chance with a cyclone.
at for cripes’ sake!, excl.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 168: When Shane answered the gong for the seventh, Tim whispered to Blinky, ‘It’s a cross’.
at cross, n.1
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 29: Cut me in on another hundred of that.
at cut in, v.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 39: He’s a dead right kid – got all the right instincts.
at dead-right (adj.) under dead, adv.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 44: He put the double-o on me.
at double-O, n.2
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 27: On an ‘off night’ a champion might lose to a dub.
at dub, n.5
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 104: I’ll take him on right now [...] Them big yaps are duck soup for me.
at duck soup, n.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 170: There’s more floozies in this town than cattle in the stockyard.
at floozy, n.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 37: He’s a fox – lot of brains.
at fox, n.1
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 235: I want five Gs in the referee’s pool.
at G, n.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 155: She died quick of gallopin’ consumption.
at galloping, adj.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 121: I put you on the grease a little in my story [...] I made you a great guy, Shane.
at grease, n.1
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 107: A slap-happy bum.
at slap-happy, adj.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 108: Bless his Hebe heart.
at hebe, adj.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 109: You’re over the hill now, me boy.
at over the hill under hill, n.
[US] J. Tully Bruiser 60: Well, I’m your huckleberry, Mr. Haney.
at huckleberry, n.
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