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[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 616: I swear it beats my time, though.
at beat someone’s time (v.) under beat, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 205: People say that Tahoe means ‘Silver Lake’ [...] Bosh. It means grasshopper soup.
at bosh!, excl.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 149: The uneducated foreigner could not even furnish a Santa Cruz Punch, an Eye-Opener, a Stone-Fence, or an Earthquake.
at bottled earthquake, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 398: It seems to come as natural [...] as it is to put a friend’s cedar pencil in your pocket.
at cedar (pencil), n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 358: Ashore, it [i.e. Constantinople] was – well, it was an eternal circus.
at circus, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 62: Blowing suffocating ‘clouds’ and boisterously performing in the smoking-room at night.
at blow a cloud (v.) under cloud, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 41: The governor would say, ‘Hello, here – didn’t see anything in France?’ That cat wouldn’t fight, you know.
at that cock won’t fight under cock, n.3
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 155: We were to select our horses at 3 P.M. At that hour, Abraham, the dragoman, marshaled them before us [...] Blucher shook his head and said: ‘That dragon is going to get himself into trouble fetching those old crates out of the hospital the way they are.’.
at crate, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 26: I state frankly that I was all unprepared for this crusher.
at crusher, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 616: Oh, certainly; the old man’s got dead loads of books .
at dead loads (n.) under dead, adv.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 376: When it [i.e. a sausage] was done [...] a dog walked sadly in and nipped it. [...] and probably recognized the remnants of a friend.
at dog, n.2
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 357: In the Hellespont we saw where Leander and Lord Byron swam across [...] merely for a flyer, as Jack says.
at flyer, n.2
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 256: She squandered millions of francs on a navy which she did not need, and the first time she took her new toy into action she got it knocked higher than Gilderoy’s kite -- to use the language of the Pilgrims.
at higher than Gilderoy’s kite, adj.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 65: It is pushed out into the sea on the end of a flat, narrow strip of land, and is suggestive of a ‘gob’ of mud on the end of a shingle.
at gob, n.2
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 57: It is in communities like this that Jesuit humbuggery flourishes.
at humbuggery, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 52: The suffering Moses! There ain’t money enough in the ship to pay that bill!
at Moses!, excl.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 269: [Americans] wear a conical hat termed a ‘nail-kag’.
at nail keg (n.) under nail, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 213: ’S’death! What can ye do? Curb thy prating tongue.
at ’sdeath!, excl.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 86: They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they ‘skirmish,’ as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way.
at skirmish, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 91: He’ll go down now and grind out about four reams of the awfullest slush.
at slush, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 148: Our general said, ‘We will take a whiskey straight.’.
at straight, adj.2
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 52: The suffering Moses! There ain’t money enough in the ship to pay that bill!
at suffering —!, excl.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 27: Not going to Paris! Not g— well, then, where in the nation are you going to?
at tarnation, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 426: And each of the seven lifted up his voice and said, It is a whiz.
at whiz, n.2
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