Green’s Dictionary of Slang
A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 258: My partner ... will ... beat the be-Jesus out of you.at bejazus, n.
A. Woollcott While Rome Burns (1936) 42: Juventino Rosas [...] who once wrote a pleasant and rather hoppy waltz.at hoppy, adj.1
A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 180: Your correspondent, a nighthawk of parts in those days, was within ear-shot.at nighthawk, n.
A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 304: This [...] reticence [...] will [...] be described by certain temperaments as [...] good taste [...] I say it’s spinach.at spinach, n.3
A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 48: There he was at last with his underpinnings shot from under him.at underpinnings, n.
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