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Miss Lonelyhearts (1975) 225: They got her in the back room to teach her a new word and put the boots to her.at put the boots to (v.) under boot, the, n.
Miss Lonelyhearts (1975) 225: They got her in the back room to teach her a new word and put the boots to her. ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 249: Get tanked, grab what’s on the buffet, use the girl upstairs, but remember, when you throw box cars, take the curtain like a dead game sport, don’t squawk.at boxcars, n.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 248–9: So even if the cards are cold and marked by the hand of fate, play up.at cold, adj.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 228: Aw, come off.at come off!, excl.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 270: This one is a jim-dandy.at jim dandy, n.
Miss Lonelyhearts in Coll. Works (1975) 234: The dead pan broke and pain actually crept into his voice.at deadpan, n.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 254: He felt better, knowing this, because he had begun to think himself a faker and a fool.at faker, n.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 269: Some of you, perhaps, consider yourself too far gone for help.at far gone, adj.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ Coll. Works (1975) 218: I spit on them all. Phooh!at faugh!, excl.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 262: My pulling my god damed leg along the streets and down in stinking cellars with it all the time hurting fit to burst.at fit to bust under fit to..., phr.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 250: I am twenty-six years old and in the newspaper game.at game, n.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 225: The guys on the block got sore and took her into the lots one night. About eight of them. They ganged her proper.at gang, v.
Miss Lonelyhearts in Coll. Works (1975) 260: There’s a gent here named Doyle who wants to meet you.at gent, n.1
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 264: As he passed her in the dark foyer, she goosed him and laughed.at goose, v.3
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 264: The first thing she put on the table was a quart bottle of guinea red.at guinea red (n.) under guinea, adj.
Miss Lonelyhearts in Coll. Works (1975) 231: No matter how hard he begged her to give Shrike horns, she refused to sleep with him.at give horns (v.) under horn, n.1
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 225: When this hard-boiled stuff first came in, she dropped the trick English accent and went in for scram and lam.at lam, n.1
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 246: He welcomes the job, for it might lead to a gossip column, and anyway he’s tired of being a leg man.at leg man, n.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 243: That got me riled and I lit into the bastard and gave him a piece of my mind.at light into (v.) under light, v.1
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 266: Gee, I’d love to have him love me up.at love (up), v.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ Coll. Works (1975) 233: The Mrs will be out in a few minutes. She’s in the tub.at Mrs, n.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 266: All I have to do is point to some big guy and say, ‘Gee, I’d love to have him love me up.’ It drives him nuts.at drive someone nuts (v.) under nuts, adj.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 268: The rock remained calm and solid.at rock, n.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 243: [He] wouldn’t even give me money for an abortion. He said if he gave me the money that would mean it was his fault and I would have something on him?at have something on someone (v.) under something, n.
Miss Lonelyhearts in Coll. Works (1975) 248: ‘Life,’ you say, ‘is a club where they won’t stand for squawks.’.at squawk, n.
Miss Lonelyhearts (1969) 66: The owner’s strictly from hunger. Come on, I’ll get you fixed up swell.at strictly from hunger under strictly, adv.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 246: The job is a circulation stunt and the whole staff considers it a joke.at stunt, n.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 249: Get tanked, grab what’s on the buffet, use the girl upstairs.at tanked (up), adj.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 242: When I got into trouble, I didn’t know what to do and asked him for the money for an abortion.at get into trouble (v.) under trouble, n.
‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ in Coll. Works (1975) 225: Well, the mugs didn’t know they were picturesque and thought she was regular until the barkeep put them wise.at put (someone) wise (v.) under wise, adj.
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