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[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad 193: I’ve got it [the German language] where the hair’s short, I think.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad 547: In the seat thus pirated, sat two Americans, greatly incommoded by that woman’s majestic coffin-clad feet .
at coffin, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad 268: [He said] dog’d if he wanted to risk his neck going over those mountain roads on wheels in the dead of winter.
at dog, v.2
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad 193: First-off, I thought it would certainly give me the botts.
at first off under first, adj.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad Ch. xxxii: Her stripling brought an armful of aged sheet-music from their room — for this bride went ‘heeled’ as you might say.
at heeled, adj.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad 438: My nerves had hardly grown quiet after this affair when they got another shake-up, one which utterly unmanned me for a moment.
at shake-up, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad 80: Then I propped myself against M. Gambetta’s back, and raised a rousing ‘Whoop-ee!’ [DA].
at whoopee!, excl.
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