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[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: What makes you so restless? Have you got ants in your britches?
at ants in one’s pants under ants, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: I knocked around in my time [...] I bummed, I bummed this country till I was —.
at knock around, v.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act I: Did anyone ever tell you that you’re an ass-aching Puritan, Brick?
at arseache (n.) under arse, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: big daddy: That half-ass story! brick: What’s half-ass about it?
at half-assed, adj.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: You’re all balled up, you.
at balled-up, adj.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Church! – it bores the Bejesus out of me but I go!
at bejazus, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Big Daddy [...] threw down his fork.
at big daddy, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Miss Sally, you’re a case! You’re a caution.
at caution, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: brick: Both of us married into society, Big Daddy. big daddy: Crap ...
at crap!, excl.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Now that shadow’s lifted, I’m going to cut loose and have, what is it they call it, have me a – ball!
at cut loose, v.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Cut up crazy! Rented hotel ballrooms for victory celebrations.
at cut up, v.1
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: I’ll strip her naked [...] and hump her from hell to breakfast.
at from hell to breakfast under hell, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Was it jumping or humping that you were doing out there? What were you doing out there at three a.m., layin’ a woman on that cinder track?
at humping, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act III: I know how to give a hypo.
at hypo, n.2
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Slept in hobo jungles and railroad Y’s and flop-houses in all cities.
at jungle, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act I: What makes you think that Big Daddy has a lech for you, Maggie?
at letch, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act I: You know, our sex life didn’t just peter out in the usual way, it was cut off short.
at peter out, v.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: I ast you, Brick, if you was cuttin’ you’self a piece o’ poon-tang last night on that cinder track?
at poontang, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act III: If there’s any peculiar shenanigans going on around here behind my back, well, I’m no corporation lawyer for nothing.
at shenanigan, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Ducking sissies? Queers?
at sissy, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Maybe that’s why you put Maggie and me in this room that was Jack Straw’s and Peter Ochello’s, in which that pair of old sisters slept in a double bed.
at sister, n.
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Son of a – tub of – hog fat ...
at tub of lard (n.) under tub, n.1
[US] T. Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: Concentrate, but you can’t because your brain’s all soaked with liquor, is that the trouble? Wet brain!
at wetbrain (n.) under wet, adj.1
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