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The Man with the Golden Arm choose

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[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 170: The only thing it [i.e. a drenching with water] ain’t worth a damn on is a woman under sixty or a girl over twelve.
at not worth a damn, phr.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 123: [She] rushed Grandma, drunk as a coot, down the hall and down the steps.
at drunk as a cootie, adj.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 32: Seeing a pair of aces from the Saloon Street Station making for the entrance.
at ace, n.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 175: Now he’s gettin’ set to pull one of his corny movie acts on me.
at pull a — act (v.) under act, n.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 11: There it was, Little Joe or Phoebe, Big Dick or Eighter from Decatur, double trey the hard way.
at Ada from Decatur, n.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 64: She would grasp his throat in exasperation after he’d strung her along awhile like that.
at string (along), v.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 73: The reception clerks regarded ambulance chasing as some sort of felony.
at ambulance-chasing (n.) under ambulance-chaser, n.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 185: She says thats my todays hot tip for you soldier — How you like them onions?
at how do you like them apples?, phr.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 286: Picturing him as some oversized strongarmer.
at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 291: The one-arm restaurant [...] that carries junkie traffic all night.
at one-arm (joint), n.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 87: You godamned hairy-ass morphodyke booze bums.
at hairy-arsed, adj.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 286: A drag-ass ignoramus. A stooge. A bottom-of-the-heaper.
at drag-ass, adj.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 316: How can I know where I’m at when I don’t know where he’s at?
at where one is at, phr.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 274: I got too many marbles to be put away.
at put away, v.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 87: Sparrow had gone away for thirty days.
at go away (v.) under away, adj.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 123: The spectacle of somebody’s grandmother in nothing but a suit of long underwear, the high-heeled shoes once called ‘baby dolls’ and one ear-ring dangling.
at baby-doll (n.) under baby, n.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 15: [He] dreamed, for the second time in his life, of the man with the thirty-five pound monkey on his back.
at monkey on one’s back, n.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 234: He left me holdin’ the bag for sure.
at hold the bag, v.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 87: You moldy-lookin’ sandlot, spigotheaded bakebrain.
at bakebrain (n.) under bake, v.1
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 67: I lost my taste for the booze the night Zosh got banged up.
at banged up, adj.1
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 43: The barflies who buzzed all day long between the curb and the bar.
at bar-fly, n.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 33: A beat-out deck ’n a dirty shirt is what you really bring.
at beat, adj.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 91: Stash beat his gums around the evening pumpernickel.
at beat one’s gums, v.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 239: Quit beatin’ around the bushes.
at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 82: It’s from flirtin’ [...] Me ’n my bedroom eyes.
at bedroom eyes, n.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 217: I got a deal on with a guy who got his hands on six bennies.
at benny, n.4
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 170: We had a pair of biddies go after each other here.
at biddy, n.2
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 109: You’d think it was a big deal, tryin’ to make a chick.
at big deal, n.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 75: The dummy pinched me, Frankie — what’s the big idea?
at what’s the (big) idea?, phr.
[US] N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 174: I had a couple of bills Wednesday night but you wasn’t around.
at bill, n.3
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