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The Price Is Right choose

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[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 16: What I need is a dash of gumption, a dollop of git-up-and-git, a shot in the arm.
at get-up-and-get, n.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 360: Wallace Pohl [...] today dropped a bombshell on Capitol Hill for the second time in as many months.
at bombshell, n.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 105: These chicken-hearted, butt-licking, limelight-hunting, two-for-a-nickel ward heelers we call statesmen these days?
at butt-licking, adj.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 301: He said H.R. would have his neck if he fired a girl with casabas like yours.
at casaba, n.1
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 121: He’s a funny duck.
at duck, n.1
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 123: I thought I was hired to make with the typewriter instead of with the googoo eyes.
at goo-goo eyes, n.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 187: Montgomery Ward also sells what I think are known as falsies.
at falsies, n.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 347: Wouldn’t you rather be titillated with some fruity behind-the-scenes gossip about this, your nation’s capital?
at fruity, adj.1
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 198: Charlie laughed so hard he almost bust a gut.
at bust a gut (v.) under gut, n.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 341: If you want to learn, ask your hatchet man to take you down for a lesson.
at hatchet man (n.) under hatchet, n.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 338: If your New Haven-trained brain is still functioning, you can pour another little item into the hopper.
at hopper, n.1
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 96: She was advised that [...] her six months’ howl for relief on the switchboard would have to be pigeonholed indefinitely.
at howl, n.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 107: Addressing his reply to some jerk newspaper man in a tank town nobody ever heard of.
at jerk, adj.2
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 96: Deedee told me in the john at nine sharp that Larry Ide had been in since a little after eight.
at john, n.2
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 123: ‘Shall I announce that you’ve brought your head for the axe?’ ‘If his nibs is receiving.’.
at his nibs (n.) under nibs, n.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 298: Ide is an okay book-keeper.
at OK, adj.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 188: Doesn’t that pinheaded idiot understand a simple thing like --?
at pinhead, adj.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 299: The way things stand now, you either play or you powder.
at powder, v.1
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 178: You mean it doesn’t send you?
at send, v.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 139: It takes more than that dash of gumption [...] that shot in the arm you’ve been telling me about.
at shot in the arm (n.) under shot, n.1
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 88: This baby is worth six or seven hundred smacks to the herd.
at smack, n.1
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 199: It’s sock stuff, Wally.
at sock, adj.
[US] J. Weidman Price Is Right 9: Wapping asked them if they would allow him to take a whirl at a comic strip.
at give something a whirl (v.) under whirl, n.
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