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[US] Van Loan ‘His Own Stuff’ in Score by Innings (2004) 388: Uncle Billy was certainly an ace at the Montmorency Street Police Station.
at ace, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Chivalry in Carbon County’ in Score by Innings (2004) 328: That one run looked mighty good to us [...] we were thankful for that ace.
at ace, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Mister Conley’ in Score by Innings (2004) 423: When the boss picks out a new man we give him the third degree; and if he stands the acid [...] we let him in.
at stand the acid (v.) under acid, n.2
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bone Doctor’ in Score by Innings (2004) 361: ‘Ye–s,’ says Murph; ‘he’s all of that and then some.’.
at all that, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘Excess Baggage’ in Score by Innings (2004) 397: Then along came George Steck, with the same song and dance.
at song and dance, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Excess Baggage’ in Score by Innings (2004) 398: The anvil chorus was a dying whisper beside the knocking that came off in the next few days.
at anvil chorus, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Chivalry in Carbon County’ in Score by Innings (2004) 325: Two of the biggest old battle-axes I ever saw in my life.
at battle-axe, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bone Doctor’ in Score by Innings (2004) 361: Jones: he got in bad with me from the jump.
at get in bad (with) (v.) under bad, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bone Doctor’ in Score by Innings (2004) 371: He was the local orator, the official bazoo of the village.
at bazoo, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Chivalry in Carbon County’ in Score by Innings (2004) 327: She shook her bat at me [...] and said if I ‘beaned’ her, she’d bust it over my head.
at bean, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘Excess Baggage’ in Score by Innings (2004) 399: There was jawing in the clubhouse, crabbing on the bench and beefing on the field.
at beef, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The National Commission Decides’ in Score by Innings (2004) 299: ‘I’ll crack it,’ said Cordell, shoving two blues to the centre [of the poker table].
at blue, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The National Commission Decides’ in Score by Innings (2004) 294: That crack just shows what a natural ‘bone’ you are, Sam!
at bone, n.5
[US] Van Loan ‘Excess Baggage’ in Score by Innings (2004) 394: Everybody makes at least one frightful bone play that he hates to have thrown up at him.
at bone, adj.2
[US] Van Loan ‘Excess Baggage’ Score by Innings (2004) 404: Doctor Bones reminded me. ‘Good land, chief [...] I neveh did git no chance to doctah that man’s ankle.’.
at bones, n.2
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bone Doctor’ in Score by Innings (2004) 363: Jones had chances to make himself popular with the gang, but he booted every one of ’em.
at boot, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Chivalry in Carbon County’ in Score by Innings (2004) 327: I was out there to show these bottle blondes that they didn’t have the only pitcher on earth.
at bottle blond(e) (n.) under bottle, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Squirrel’ in Score by Innings (2004) 339: You mark my words [...] Wicks is going violently bug one of these days.
at bug, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘Chivalry in Carbon County’ in Score by Innings (2004) 320: It’s you, ain’t it? [...] And I thought it was a bunk steerer!
at bunk, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Squirrel’ in Score by Innings (2004) 337: He’s a nut [...] but he’s quiet, and he ’tends to business.
at take care of business, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘Nine Assists and Two Errors’ in Score by Innings (2004) 410: I may turn out to be quite a pitcher – and then again I may be a piece of cheese.
at cheese, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Mister Conley’ in Score by Innings (2004) 428: After that he was cock-of-the-walk with the recruits.
at cock of the walk (n.) under cock, n.3
[US] Van Loan ‘Mister Conley’ in Score by Innings (2004) 434: You couldn’t hit the ground with your hat!
at couldn’t hit the ground with his hat under couldn’t..., phr.
[US] Van Loan ‘Mister Conley’ in Score by Innings (2004) 425: You and all your wife’s counterjumper relations!
at counter-jumper, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bone Doctor’ in Score by Innings (2004) 361: He tells me he was a curly wolf in the K.K.B. League last season.
at curly wolf (n.) under curly, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘Piute vs. Piute’ in Score by Innings (2004) 318: It was a Jim-dandy of a peg, neither too high nor too low, but just exactly right.
at jim dandy, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Mister Conley’ Score by Innings (2004) 423: When the boss picks out a new man we give him the third degree; and if he stands the acid [...] we let him in.
at third degree, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bone Doctor’ in Score by Innings (2004) 361: He was all diked up with a lot of cheap jewelry.
at diked up, adj.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Bone Doctor’ in Score by Innings (2004) 361: I worked in forty games and they best me five times; but the team laid down behind me.
at lay down, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘His Own Stuff’ in Score by Innings (2004) 386: I don’t often dude myself up and it seems a shame to waste it.
at dude up (v.) under dude, n.1
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