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Don’t Tread on Me choose

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[US] S.J. Perelman letter 6 May in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 3: A flock of dumber barnies than the clerks at the Sub-Treasury I never met.
at barney, n.3
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 2 Apr. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) n.p.: The lucky gal and myself [...] will probably ‘take the step’ (ha ha!) around July 1st, scramming for France shortly afterward.
at scram, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 31 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 7: Along comes a sergeant mad as hell. Bawls out the cop for being off his beat.
at bawl out, v.1
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 31 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 6: I have been so bust birching my ass to squeeze out my monthly stint.
at break one’s ass (v.) under break, v.1
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 31 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 7: The gent caught short in Central Park, slips into the bushes and lets down his galluses.
at caught short, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman Letter 9 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 5: One gent more bored than the rest lifts his conk from a glass of mixed schmaltz and pernod and says; ‘I’ll tell you, fella...’.
at conk, n.1
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 26 Feb. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 23: Organized effort to show him up for the cornpone Hitler he is.
at cornpone (adj.) under corn, n.1
[US] S.J. Perelman letter in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 31 Oct. 6: An old acquaintance swam into our steaming ken a couple of days ago.
at ken, n.1
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 31 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 7: ‘Oke, I’ll stand here and guard the hat while you run and get a cage,’ offers the shommus.
at shamus, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 31 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 7: I scared the shit out of him!
at scare the (living) shit(s) out of (v.) under shit, the, phr.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 17 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 8: You boll-weevil hell out of me for selling my corpse to a lot of lousy yid producers.
at Yiddish, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 29 June in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 14: Just as sure as Jehovah made little green apples.
at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 11 Mar. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 11: Working away at that jerk-off musical and hating it more and more.
at jerk-off, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 26 Apr. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 29: 32 m. chicken fat (also called ‘beggar’s schmaltz’).
at beggar’s schmaltz (n.) under beggar, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 10 Apr. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 28: A group of spectacular bull-dikers of the Elsa Maxwell set.
at bull-dyker, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 23 May in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 31: From that comes baldness and mopery.
at mopery, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 16 Mar. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 60: I don’t use a literary agent, but I probably should, because I have been frigged time and again by publishers.
at frig, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 26 Mar. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 61: I have become a whippy, probably homosexual youth reminiscent of Dorian Gray in his earlier phase but far more handsome.
at whippy, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 26 June in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 76: If you are visited by any slant-eyed Celestials from Chefoo or Macao who present IOU’s [...] I beg your indulgence.
at celestial, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 20 Apr. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 95: I have come away with the most vitriolic loathing of these cheese-headed bastards.
at cheesehead, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 21 Jan. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 83: Ordinary air mail stationery will never stand the gaff.
at stand the gaff (v.) under gaff, n.2
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 22 Feb. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 89: Where we really got off nicely, though, was in our mutual respect and admiration for con men.
at get off, v.2
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 26 Feb. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 24: Well, kiddies, it’s lunchtime.
at kiddy, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 19 May in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 96: Well, Peaches, it was a jim dandy.
at peaches, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 2 Aug. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 104: The two little charges can occupy themselves [...] in the surf instead of frazzling their parents’ nerves.
at frazzle, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 6 Aug. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 109: I’ll give you a bell when I get into town.
at give someone a bell (v.) under bell, n.1
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 23 Nov. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 119: The phrase ‘Fuck you, big boy’ trembled on my lips.
at big boy, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 23 Nov. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 119: The phrase ‘Fuck you, big boy’ trembled on my lips.
at fuck you!, excl.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 20 June in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 130: A plumber and electrician, both of whom are the most exasperating feebs I’ve ever met.
at feeb, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman letter 23 June in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 138: It [a radio broadcast] sure was a daisy.
at daisy, n.
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