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[US] M. Philips Newspaper 54: Some managing editors are born with a ‘nose for news’; others achieve ‘beats’.
at beat, n.2
[US] M. Philips Newspaper 62: Lawyer Muggins has filed papers in divorce on behalf of Grocer Buggins against Mrs. Buggins.
at buggins, n.
[US] M. Philips Newspaper 76: I am working the gold-brick game [...] I can tell you at least how we did up an old cockatoo here to-day for seventeen thousand dollars.
at do up, v.1
[US] M. Philips Newspaper 76: I am working the gold-brick game [...] I can tell you at least how we did up an old cockatoo here to-day for seventeen thousand dollars.
at goldbrick, n.
[US] M. Philips Newspaper 219: The late James Parton said that Pittsburgh at night reminded him of ‘hell with the lid taken off’.
at hell with the lid off (n.) under hell, n.
[US] M. Philips Newspaper 118: She drew her feet together and with outstretched mits exclaimed, — ‘I am Cora Muggins!’.
at mitt, n.
[US] M. Philips Newspaper 212: A glance suffices to tell him if a horse has been ‘stiffened’ and clever indeed must that jockey be who can pull or misride a horse without his eager eye detecting it.
at stiffen, v.2
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