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[US] M. West Sex (1997) II ii: Come on, pull yourself together, you’re all to pieces.
at all to pieces, adj.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I ii: Wrap yourself around this. Atta girl.
at attaboy!, excl.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) Act II: I’ll promise you a new thrill every day, babe.
at babe, n.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I i: Won’t I burn up the janes when I wear this!
at burn up, v.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) Act II: Now don’t give me that business.
at business, n.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I ii: I’ll get even with you, you dirty charity, I’ll get even.
at charity, n.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I ii: Oh, the diggings ain’t so bad. Sit down and make yourself comfortable.
at diggings, n.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I ii: I’m paying the freight on this joint, and what I say goes.
at freight, n.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) II ii: She’s off the game and she’s off me since she met this Stanton.
at game, n.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) Act II: She’s trying to make me the goat.
at goat, n.2
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I i: Maybe you and I could hit it up together, eh?
at hit it, v.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I i: margy: But suppose he really loves her? rocky: Don’t make me laugh.
at don’t make me laugh under laugh, v.
[US] M. West Sex I i: You ought to be lousy with coin.
at lousy with (adj.) under lousy, adj.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I i: Oh, mamma, you don’t know what you’re missing.
at mama, n.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I ii: margy: He’s pulled something. (gregg follows margy to bedroom door.) gregg: Who is she?
at pull, v.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) II ii: The gobs said you were ritzing it.
at ritz, n.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) Act I: The police have got you spotted.
at spotted, adj.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I i: Oh, I’m going somewhere where I can play around with the heavy sugar daddies and see life.
at heavy sugar (n.) under sugar, n.1
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I i: Wait until the old gink finds out what she is. Watch him unload her.
at unload, v.
[US] M. West Sex (1997) I ii: Wrap yourself around this. Atta girl.
at wrap oneself around (v.) under wrap, v.
[US] M. West Drag (1997) III i: Listen, Bargain, if you don’t want me to clean out this joint, lay off of Civic Virtue before I knock you loose from that flat beezer of yours.
at beezer, n.1
[US] M. West Drag (1997) Act II: This big bitch thinks nobody has anything or looks like anything but her.
at bitch, n.1
[US] M. West Drag (1997) Act II: I’ve got the most gorgeous new drag. Black satin, very tight, with a long train of rhinestones.
at drag, n.1
[US] M. West Drag (1997) Act I: You’ve fussed with Rolly. Come, confess.
at fuss, v.
[US] M. West Drag (1997) Act II: She needed a jab. She’s been taking heroin and morphine by the barrels.
at jab, n.
[US] M. West Drag (1997) Act II: Where are you molls calling from?
at moll, n.
[US] M. West Drag (1997) Act II: Well, I goes over and there was the poor queen ready to jump out of the window.
at queen, n.
[US] M. West Drag (1997) III i: (Clem pushes through the crowd with Duchess’s wig. He throws it to Duchess.) clem: Take your rag.
at rag, n.1
[US] M. West Drag (1997) Act II: I don’t know about husbands. I only have one and one is enough. He just runs me ragged.
at run someone ragged (v.) under run, v.
[US] M. West Drag (1997) Act II: Why you big Swede. You’d take it through a funnel if anybody would give it to you.
at Swede, n.
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