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[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 1 July 266: Edith’s pretty awful sedate.
at awful, adv.
[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 1 July 267: Open the door, bub, so’s we can hear.
at bub, n.3
[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 1 July 268: My gee! It’s as hot as ever I felt for this time of year.
at gee!, excl.
[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 1 July 266: She told me to fly my kite! She’s off me!
at go fly a kite! (excl.) under kite, n.
[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 17 May 289: That blah-blah-blah-blah, and so on.
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[US] R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 17 May 285: Deprived of his sense of proportion, the cold-eyed, stern-jawed Northerner [...] will listen open-mouthed to the jazz and ballyhoo of the Florida land promoters.
at jazz, n.
[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 11 July 308: Shiftless is drunk as a fiddler’s dog.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 308: Look out, yer clumsy ox!
at ox, n.
[US] R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 14 Jan. 396: I’ll [...] ’ail a bumboat and go ashore myself.
at bum-boat, n.
[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 14 Jan. 399: He raised his voice in a rollicking blue-water chantey.
at chant, n.
[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 14 Jan. 400: Turkey! Sparrowgrass! Plum pudding!
at sparrow-grass, n.
[US] R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 8 July 434: Okay, I’ll go back and beat the breeze.
at beat the breeze (v.) under beat, v.
[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 8 July 434: Okay, I’ll go back and beat the breeze.
at beat the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 23 Nov. 480: You’re crazy, you damn apple-knocking liar!
at apple knock, v.
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