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Congressional Record 17 Apr. 3166/1: We have had this ‘slush-fund’ since 1866... It was divided among these officers to increase their salaries [OED].at slush fund, n.
Congressional Record 17 Apr. 3166/1: We have had this ‘slush-fund’ since 1866... It was divided among these officers to increase their salaries [OED]. Congressional Record 10 Aug. 5403/1: Where are the soldiers of the Union army ...? Nearly all gone, a clean sweep; to use a phrase that I never heard before, although I am told it is common in some sections of the country, they are ‘bounced’ [DA].at bounce, v.1
Congressional Record 29 June 4260/2: Provide that out of that fund this House may receive that pittance which shall enable it to supply the necessary wants of its members, without [...] playing ‘Dick Smith’ on the Senate.at dick smith, n.
Congressional Record 5 Aug. 5226/1: Now I want you gentlemen on the other side of the House to ‘fish or cut bait’ [DA].at fish or cut bait under fish, v.1
Congressional Record 5 July 4397/1: If the Senator from Vermont [...] does not like to vote square against [this bill] [...], this is the right way to defeat it [DA].at square, adv.
Congressional Record 12 Apr. 2492/1: The yankee notions produced by Newark every year will buy out, body and breeches, any thoroughly Democratic State in the Union [DA].at body and breeches (adv.) under body, n.
Congressional Record 27 Mar. 2093/1: The adroit and sleight-of-hand Stebbins, [...] could handle a ticket as a sportsman would a playing-card [DA].at sportsman, n.
Congressional Record 28 Feb. 2131/1: St. Louis is going to have some of the ‘pork’ indirectly; but it will not do any good [DA].at pork, n.
Congressional Record 12 Apr. 2327/1: We should protect the ballot-box from violence [...] from the ‘short boys’ and ‘dead rabbits,’ of this country [DA].at dead rabbit (n.) under dead, adj.
Congressional Record 12 Apr. 2327/1: We should protect the ballot-box from violence, [...] from the ‘short boys’ and ‘dead rabbits’ of this country [DA].at short boy (n.) under short, adj.1
Congressional Record 1022/1: He was a democrat, as he says, for a ‘guy’ [DA].at guy, n.1
Congressional Record 3 Oct. 9122/1: He is way below, he is only 50 in mathematics [DA].at way, adv.
Congressional Record 5 Sept. 9744/2: [He was] shot in the forehead with a leaden bullet from a weapon known as a ‘bean-shooter’.at bean-shooter, n.1
Congressional Record 27 Aug. 9213/2: I have here some carots [sic] of Cuban tobacco [DA].at carrot, n.
Congressional Record 21 Apr. 3637: I saw an admirable illustration of the affection which a sailor will lavish on a ship’s boy to whom he takes a fancy, and makes his ‘chicken’ as the phrase is [DA].at chicken, n.
Congressional Record 16 Aug. 8713/2: The ‘washerwoman’s gig’ — 4-11-14 — [is] the chance that these three, or any other three numbers, will, in any order, be the first three numbers out of the thirteen taken from the wheel [DA].at gig, n.7
Congressional Record 18 Sept. 10188/2: They find a difficulty in shinning around to borrow money [DA].at shin, v.1
Congressional Record 12 Mar. 2172/1: Every spring election there is a contest as to whether the town is to be ‘wet’ or ‘dry’ [DA].at wet, adj.1
Congressional Record 16 Mar. 2133/1: Let’s go into cahoots and go a coon hunting .at in cahoots (with) under cahoots, n.
Congressional Record 17 Mar. 2160/2: [They] were of the stripe of calamity-shouters whose occupation is gone unless they can prove that calamity stalks abroad [DA].at calamity howler (n.) under calamity, n.
Congressional Record 31 May Appendix 385/1: The free-delivery service is burdened by the collection and delivery of thousands of dead-head matter under the ‘penalty postage system’ [DA].at deadhead, adj.
Congressional Record 27 May 4777/1: He goes away, and a jack-legged [army] officer could do nothing [DA].at jackleg, adj.
Congressional Record H. R. Rep. 2242/2: They employ knucks [DA].at knuck, n.
Congressional Record 28 Feb. 2299/1: Here is the milk in the cocoanut! A frank confession it is [DA].at milk in the coco(a)nut (n.) under milk, n.
Congressional Record 9 Apr. 3556/1: To use the language imputed to the President [Cleveland], ‘the banks have got the country by the leg’ [DA].at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
Congressional Record 16 Jan. 904/1: [Cleveland] was not elected in 1888...because of pious John Wanamaker and his $400,000 of campaign slush funds [OED].at slush fund, n.
Congressional Record 15 Mar. 2995/1: The gopher is an iron plow [DA].at gopher, n.1
Congressional Record 24 Jan. 1347/2: Is it possible that the framers of the bill hold a grudge against the voters who ‘sawed wood’ last November? [DA].at saw wood (v.) under saw, v.
Congressional Record 18 May 4920/1: A distinguished ex-President, now dead, said that soap was needed in a great campaign [DA].at soap, n.1
Congressional Record 30 Mar. 3366/1: Now I will play Yankee with my friend. [...] I will answer his question by asking another [DA].at yankee, v.
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