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[US] in B.I. Wiley diary They Who Fought Here (1959) 237: The first thing I knew I had his knife in me and the operation performed ‘Before I could say Jack Robinson’.
at before one can say Jack Robinson under Jack Robinson, n.
[US] in B.I. Wiley They Who Fought Here (1959) 192: ‘Bust-Skull,’ ‘Tanglefoot,’ ‘Nockum Stiff,’ and ‘Old Red Eye’.
at bustskull (n.) under bust, v.1
[US] in B.I. Wiley They Who Fought Here (1959) 192: I have not got but three tast(e)s since I have been in Va. [...] and I got that from two fine looking women I tell you the three goes cost me but eleven dollars.
at go, n.1
[US] in B.I. Wiley They Who Fought Here (1959) 192: You can get a plenty of Grous [sic] here but you will get wounded nine times out of ten, not with the clap but with something worse.
at grouse, n.1
[US] in B.I. Wiley They Who Fought Here (1959) 192: Mrs Turner brought down some Ale have had a damn good time since it has been here been tight as a pup all the time.
at tight as a tick (adj.) under tight, adj.
[US] B.I. Wiley They Who Fought Here 230: While the ‘butchery’ of Civil War surgeons has probably been exaggerated, some of them were unquestionably ‘saw-happy’.
at -happy, sfx
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