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The Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm choose

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[US] Van Loan ‘The Phantom League’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 194: Then Pop Frisbee swallowed hard and acknowledged the corn.
at acknowledge the corn, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘Little Sunset’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 96: You had us up in the air for a few days!
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘McCluskey’s Prodigal’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 259: He’s away to the bad on his control.
at to the bad under bad, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Sweeney to Sanguinetti to Schultz’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 59: You’re actors, all right, at that — bad actors.
at bad actor (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘Phantom League’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 178: He is now confined in the Bastile until such time as he ceases to see herds of red, white, and blue elephants.
at bastille, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Sweeney to Sanguinetti to Schultz’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 61: She sings up hier in dis box, unt ve git a bawl-owit!
at bawl-out, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘A Rain Check’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 296: I’d ought to turned up that big beak of his until it [...] strangled him.
at beak, n.2
[US] Van Loan ‘A Rain Check’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 305: He’s a bear [...] Did you see the way he murdered that drop ball of mine?
at bear, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Comeback’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 203: He had all a big leaguer’s lofty disdain for those who have never been in ‘the big show’.
at big show (n.) under big, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 11: The early birds [...] every team has two or three baseball ‘bugs’ who show up at the clubhouse at noon.
at early bird, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘A Rain Check’ Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 312: Receiving homage, ‘bit’ cigars, and kind words.
at bit, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Little Sunset’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 98: What’s biting you? Tryin’ to stand ’em up for more money?
at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Comeback’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 211: If he had n’t been a booze hound, he ’d have been the greatest pitcher in the world.
at booze-hound (n.) under booze, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘A Rain Check’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 307: A lanky, red-headed young man climbed down [...] ‘Who’s the brick-top?’ asked White.
at bricktop (n.) under brick, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Loosening Up of Hogan’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 145: I might have known I couldn’t bull you.
at bull, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Little Sunset’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 112: You bull right along in with that thick head of yours.
at bull, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Behind the Mask’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 227: A bulldozer, a bluffer, a loud talker, a button snatcher.
at bulldoser, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Phantom League’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 193: You and your bunk newspaper have made an awful sucker out of me.
at bunk, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Comeback’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 204: The wild young men from the bushes outpitched him.
at bush, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘The Phantom League’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 180: Huh! [...] some bush-league newspaper man trying to be funny.
at bush league, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Phantom League’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 172: Why did they tie the can to Homer Kennedy? [Ibid.] 200: I hope they tie the can to you so tight you’ll never be able to get it off.
at tie a can to (v.) under can, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Loosening Up of Hogan’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 130: They might finish [...] with six teams in front of them and the cellar champions clamoring behind.
at in the cellar under cellar, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Loosening Up of Hogan’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 135: Any chair warmer can tell you how to play a hand.
at chair-warmer (n.) under chair, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Loosening Up of Hogan’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 135: This short skate Hogan’s too stingy to have a right to any ideas about circulatin’ currency.
at cheapskate, n.
[US] Van Loan ‘Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 23: ‘If you win this game, I’ll give you — ’ ‘Cheese! Cheese! [...] You’ll give me nothing.’.
at cheese, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Sweeney to Sanguinetti to Schultz’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 68: Cheese on the noise, little one.
at cheese, v.1
[US] Van Loan ‘McCluskey’s Prodigal’ Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 271: ‘Keep your trap shut.’ [...] ‘Like a clam! They’ll get nothing out of me.’.
at clam, n.1
[US] Van Loan ‘Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 31: Judging by the ‘crabbing’ on the visitors’ bench, the Canaries thought so.
at crab, v.
[US] Van Loan ‘The Comeback’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 208: Give me one more cracking good pitcher.
at cracking, adj.
[US] Van Loan ‘Loosening Up of Hogan’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 152: Don’t fail to return this check [...] losing it would put an awful crimp in the bank roll.
at put a crimp in(to) (v.) under crimp, n.1
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