1949 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.
1949 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.
1949 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.
1949 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.
1949 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.
1949 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.
1949 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.
1949 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.
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 286: Picturing him as some oversized strongarmer.at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 291: The one-arm restaurant [...] that carries junkie traffic all night.at one-arm (joint), n.
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 87: You godamned hairy-ass morphodyke booze bums.at hairy-arsed, adj.
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 286: A drag-ass ignoramus. A stooge. A bottom-of-the-heaper.at drag-ass, adj.
1949 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.
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 87: Sparrow had gone away for thirty days.at go away (v.) under away, adj.
1949 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.
1949 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.
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 87: You moldy-lookin’ sandlot, spigotheaded bakebrain.at bakebrain (n.) under bake, v.1
1949 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
1949 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.
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 33: A beat-out deck ’n a dirty shirt is what you really bring.at beat, adj.
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 91: Stash beat his gums around the evening pumpernickel.at beat one’s gums, v.
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 239: Quit beatin’ around the bushes.at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 82: It’s from flirtin’ [...] Me ’n my bedroom eyes.at bedroom eyes, n.
1949 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
1949 N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 170: We had a pair of biddies go after each other here.at biddy, n.2
1949 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.
1949 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.
1949 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