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Old Man Curry choose

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[US] Van Loan ‘The Last Chance’ in Old Man Curry 105: All I want is a chance to string with this fellow as long as he lasts.
at string (along) with (v.) under string (along), v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Last Chance’ in Old Man Curry 116: I’ve been on the up and up with the boss.
at on the up and up (adj.) under up-and-up, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘By a Hair’ in Old Man Curry 71: Engle hates to give anybody else credit for being wise to the angles around this track.
at angle, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Levelling with Elisha’ in Old Man Curry 35: They ought to have a look at his head. He’s got an attic for rent, sure.
at apartment(s) to let, phr.
[US] Van Loan ‘Eliphaz, Late Fairfax’ in Old Man Curry 153: A nice, honest little mare and game as a badger.
at ...a badger under game as..., adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘A Morning Workout’ Old Man Curry 198: How we goin’ lay up any bacon agin such odds as that?
at bacon, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Redemption Handicap’ in Old Man Curry 177: There’s some bad actors in that bunch and they’ll delay the start.
at bad actor (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Last Chance’ in Old Man Curry 117: Maybe the old crow-bait will go better in the mud.
at crow-bait, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Sanguinary Jeremiah’ in Old Man Curry 143: It was the last race of the season [...] and good-bye to the bangtails for another year.
at bangtail, n.2
[US] Van Loan ‘A Morning Workout’ in Old Man Curry 213: ‘What horse is that?’ ‘This jus’ one ’em Curry beetles.’.
at beetle, n.2
[US] Van Loan ‘A Morning Workout’ in Old Man Curry 217: It ain’t like him to unbelt for a chunk.
at unbelt (v.) under belt, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Levelling with Elisha’ Old Man Curry 15: What did that bird [i.e. a racehorse] step the three-quarters in?
at bird, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘A Morning Workout’ in Old Man Curry 204: If we should try and fall down it would give the track a black eye. The sucker horsemen would be leery of us.
at give someone/something a black eye (v.) under black eye, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Modern Judgment of Solomon’ in Old Man Curry 264: We ain’t any kind of friends [...] and that goes for every blackbird that eats out of his hand.
at blackbird, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Eliphaz, Late Fairfax’ in Old Man Curry 168: Blankety-blank it to blank!
at blankety-blank, phr.
[US] Van Loan ‘Levelling with Elisha’ in Old Man Curry 32: He [...] flang ’em bones jus’ like he’s got ’em ejicated.
at bones, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Levelling with Elisha’ in Old Man Curry 208: I’m rollin’ dem bones.
at roll the bones (v.) under bones, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘By a Hair’ in Old Man Curry 88: Regulator, 8 to 5 – Holy Moses! What kind of booking is this, anyway?
at book, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Sanguinary Jeremiah’ in Old Man Curry 145: Jeremiah came booming down the home stretch.
at boom, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘Morning Workout’ in Old Man Curry 213: Le’s breeze ’em a little an’ see how you handle a hawss.
at breeze, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Playing Even with Obadiah’ in Old Man Curry 59: If Old Man Curry is a fool, there’s an awful lot of wise people locked up in the bug houses.
at bughouse, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘A Morning Workout’ in Old Man Curry 222: You big, bulldozin’ windbag.
at bulldose, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘By a Hair’ Old Man Curry 82: That being the case [...] and Elisha on the bum, I guess I’ll take a night off.
at on the bum (adj.) under bum, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘Eliphaz, Late Fairfax’ in Old Man Curry 161: A month ago Fairfax was a bum; now he’s pretty near a stake horse.
at bum, n.3
[US] Van Loan ‘Sanguinary Jeremiah’ in Old Man Curry 131: A day when all the burglars at the track will be levelling for the get-away money.
at burglar, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Sanguinary Jeremiah’ in Old Man Curry 133: ‘You study them dad-burned dope sheets.’.
at dad-burned, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘Eliphaz, Late Fairfax’ in Old Man Curry 153: An argument to excuse yourself for shipping that [...] hay burner around the country.
at hay burner, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘By a Hair’ in Old Man Curry 69: Your friend Solomon called the turn on the get-rich-quick stuff.
at call the turn (v.) under call, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Last Chance’ in Old Man Curry 105: All I want is a chance to string with this fellow [...] and get a piece of change for myself.
at change, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Playing Even with Obadiah’ in Old Man Curry 59: Aw, what’s the good of chewing the fat? [...] Let’s not have any arguments, boys.
at chew the fat, v.
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