Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Ball of Fire choose

Quotation Text

[US] Brackett & Wilder Ball of Fire [film script] sugarpuss o’shea: Do you know what this means – ‘I’ll get you on the Ameche?’ professor betram potts: No. sugarpuss o’shea: Course you don’t. An Ameche is the telephone, on account of he invented it.
at ameche, n.
[US] Brackett & Wilder Ball of Fire [film script] Not now while it would bug up everything.
at bug up, v.1
[US] Brackett & Wilder Ball of Fire [film script] That’s a major-league [engagement] ring!
at major-league, adj.
no more results