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[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 83: The way business has fell off that he’s about ready to sell the joint for a plugged nickel.
at not worth a plugged nickel, phr.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 64: I’m gonna slap you for a Chinese ash can and send you back to that slab in Jersey on a shutter!
at -a, sfx
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 212: Don’t get any idea in your head that I had any plans to quit trying or ease up on the pace I’d set myself because I had millionaire for an ace in the hole.
at ace in the hole (n.) under ace, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 46: If Drew City was really so all-fired proud of me, why didn’t they give me a chance to make suthin’ out of myself.
at all-fired, adv.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 122: I got to try my luck at something, unless I want to wind up as a pork-and-bean pug.
at pork-and-beans, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 25: I rip it to shreds, and that kind of eases my feelings a little, anyways!
at anyways!, excl.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 23: She insists on me taking a swallow of cod liver oil [...] and it makes me as sick as a dog.
at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 64: I’m gonna slap you for a Chinese ash can and send you back to that slab in Jersey on a shutter!
at ashcan, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 42: ‘Attaboy!’ says Spence, slapping the counter.
at attaboy!, excl.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 209: They was having a wild party [...] with bootleg flowing like Niagara Falls, when along comes the revenue babies.
at baby, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 51: Them shameless young baggages from the school, with their short skirts and boys’ haircuts.
at baggage, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 296: Shut up, you ingrateful [sic] banana!
at banana, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 214: ‘What do you think of Knight Errant in the Brooklyn Handicap?’ I ask him [...] ‘Hey, listen,’ says Nate. ‘Lay off the bang-tails, kid.’.
at bangtail, n.2
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 101: You’re the bee’s knees, for a fact! [Ibid.] 111: If I ain’t the turkey’s elbow when I’m inside this bathrobe, then there’s only two Frenchmen in Paris the year round!
at bee’s knees, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 235: Spence thinks my scheme is the gnat’s elbow.
at bee’s knees, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 247: Nate says it’s all fun and shuts me up, telling the press agent we’ll be there with bells on.
at with bells on under bell, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 8: You can tell a big league head soda jerk by the way he picks up a glass.
at big-league, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 325: While I am waiting for this big blah Ryan to give me a tumble.
at blah, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 246: I blowed out of the office, fit to be tied.
at blow out, v.4
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 197: Well I’m boiling over, so I get up.
at boil, v.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 24: Knocking around since I been a kid has made me a pretty hardboiled egg.
at hard-boiled egg, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 305: The Rags pulls the boss boner of a lifetime devoted to making boneheaded plays.
at boneheaded, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 245: We make book on the first fight and lay two to one you don’t knock Christopher out.
at make book (on) (v.) under book, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 302: Mr. Brock says nothing at all, leaving it to the bootlicking jazzbos which worship the ground he walks on to take his part and mine.
at bootlicking (adj.) under bootlick, v.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 305: The Rags pulls the boss boner of a lifetime devoted to making boneheaded plays.
at boss, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 135: Lee’s handlers yells for him to go after my bum eye.
at bum, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 84: The whole joint is on the bum, for a fact!
at on the bum (adj.) under bum, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 254: You got a bun on downstairs, and I couldn’t do nothin’ with you.
at bun, n.2
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 12: The bunch stops in on their ways to school.
at bunch, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 346: A left chop to the ear started the Burgandy flowing freely.
at Burgundy, n.
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