1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 339: His lordship was by way of being a bit of a dog.at bit of (a), n.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 320: The four began to be as thick as thieves.at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 99: Looked like it would help a lot for them to [...] get a few shots of hooch under their belts.at under one’s belt under belt, n.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap 288: He apparently resolved to brass it out, for he glanced full at me with a terrific assumption of bravado.at brass it out (v.) under brass, n.1
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 362: I had put a buffalo on him!at put a buffalo on (v.) under buffalo, n.1
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 230: Mrs. Effie she butters me up with soft words every day.at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 288: Louts for waiters, cloddish louts!at cloddish (adj.) under clod, n.1
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 284: Everybody laughing and gassing back and forth and cutting up and having a good time all around.at cut up, v.1
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 241: I quite forgot the Jackson chap till it was time for him to drive me back to these diggings.at diggings, n.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 339: His lordship was by way of being a bit of a dog.at dog, n.2
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 230: He’s the human flivver. Put him in a car of dressed beef and he’d freeze it between here and Spokane.at flivver, n.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 263: He flunked a meeting of the Onwards and Upwards Society.at flunk, v.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 27: We’d better report to her before she does a hot-foot over here.at hot foot, n.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 98: Calls her ‘Maw’ all right now [...] but when that begoshed husband of hers is around the house she calls her ‘Mater’.at gosh, adj.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 352: ‘Great!’ she exclaimed in a hearty American manner.at great!, excl.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 321: You’re having me on. My word you are – spoofing.at have someone on, v.1
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 93: ‘Hell begins to pop!’ said he.at hell’s a popping under hell, n.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 99: Looked like it would help a lot for them to [...] get a few shots of hooch under their belts.at hooch, n.1
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 254: He watches this poor kloof wave his flag.at kloof, n.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 284: My lands! that’s a funny thing.at my land! (excl.) under land, n.1
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 351: Rather pigged it a bit, I fancy.at pig out (v.) under pig, v.1
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 76: It seemed probable that I should be shopped by Mrs. Effie for what she had been led to believe was my rowdyish behaviour.at shop, v.2
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 47: Know you, why, you knock-kneed old Siwash, I could pick out your hide in a tanyard!at siwash, n.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 284: I slicked up some and went on around to her house.at slick (oneself) up (v.) under slick, v.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 209: I had received a rather snarky letter from him demanding to know how long I meant to remain in North America.at snarky, adj.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 356: I was not above a snarky little wish to correct the social horizon of Belknap-Jackson.at snarky, adj.
1915 H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 258: He rejoined tartly that I was ‘to stow that piffle!’.at stow, v.