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[US] Van Loan ‘The Cast-Off’ in Big League (2004) 53: You remember what an awful belch there was [...] when they said the Pinks laid down to let the Grays win?
at belch, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Cast-Off’ in Big League (2004) 51: Come on. Blondie! [...] give us a hit!
at blondie, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bush League Demon’ in Big League (2004) 43: He’ll dog it, I tell you [...] You hang around and you’ll see him blow up.
at blow up, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Fresh Guy’ in Big League (2004) 32: Here’s something pretty spoft! Git this busher!
at busher, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Low Brow’ in Big League (2004) 23: We’ve got to bust this thing up somehow.
at bust up, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Low Brow’ in Big League (2004) 23: I gotta good notion to tie a can on you for the rest of the season.
at tie a can to (v.) under can, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Low Brow’ in Big League (2004) 20: They’re [i.e. women] all right when you can watch ’em an’ keep cases, but the minute you’re out of sight – zing!
at keep cases (on) (v.) under case, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Golden Ball of the Argonauts’ in Big League (2004) 72: My cats! Ain’t she heavy!
at my cats! (excl.) under cat, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Crab’ Big League (2004) 11: The old Crab was on the bench with ossification of the right claw.
at claw, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bush League Demon’ Big League (2004) 41: Tough mug. Don’t start anything with him or he’ll clean you.
at clean, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Cast-Off’ in Big League (2004) 49: Jaggs would [..] entangle his iron fingers in the rustic’s beard [...] Sometimes the pitcher lost his grip. Sometimes the yokel lost his lace curtains.
at lace curtain, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Low Brow’ in Big League (2004) 22: And cutting into the grape, too!
at cut into, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Crab’ in Big League (2004) 8: He was sure death on foul tips back of third base.
at death on, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bush League Demon’ in Big League (2004) 43: He’ll dog it, I tell you [...] You hang around and you’ll see him blow up.
at dog it, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Cast-Off’ in Big League (2004) 52: You s’pose that stiff was laying down on us?
at lay down on (v.) under lay down, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Low Brow’ in Big League (2004) 17: Biff began to be a patron of the arts; that is to say, he drifted into a theatre once in a while.
at drift, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bush League Demon’ in Big League (2004) 42: Did you see me dump the big farmer?
at dump, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘A Job for the Pitcher’ in Big League (2004) 65: I can eat a horse and chase the driver.
at could eat a horse (and chase the jockey/rider) under eat, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Low Brow’ in Big League (2004) 21: Looks like Biff is up against frost.
at frost, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Quitter’ in Big League (2004) 33: The scrappiest collection of fence breakers, umpire baiters, and ‘goat getters’ in professional baseball.
at get someone’s goat (v.) under goat, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Crab’ in Big League (2004) 9: If he ever gets within reaching distance of a fly ball – good night!
at goodnight, phr.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Fresh Guy’ in Big League (2004) 27: He’s got it on you, Catten, and you’re the best in the big league.
at have it on someone, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Golden Ball of the Argonauts’ in Big League (2004) 73: I ain’t got no right hornin’ in here, but [etc.].
at horn in (v.) under horn, v.3
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bush League Demon’ Big League (2004) 42: A hard outfit [...] they’ll try to hang the Indian sign on you.
at put the Indian sign on (v.) under Indian, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bush League Demon’ in Big League (2004) 45: If you get into a jam to-day [...] I’ll fine you a month’s salary.
at jam, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘A Job for the Pitcher’ Big League (2004) 69: Great Jimminetty! [...] Boy, look quick!
at jiminetty!, excl.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bush League Demon’ Big League (2004) 47: You’ve been gettin’ way with a lot of stuff to-day [...] but here’s where you can kiss yourself good-by! [sic].
at kiss oneself goodbye (v.) under kiss, v.
[US] Van Loan Big League 64: Here’s where we lock it up [i.e. a baseball game] in the valise.
at lock up, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Low Brow’ in Big League (2004) 19: I want some of them – moonlight clothes [...] One of them open-faced coats that hangs down behind. [...] Ain’t I got any right to wear them moonlights?
at moonlights, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Fresh Guy’ in Big League (2004) 28: One of his eyes was still in mourning.
at in mourning under mourning, n.
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