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[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 234: Everything is A-okay. A bull’s-eye.
at A-OK, adj.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 108: What kind of slap-and-tickle goes on behind those closed doors in the name of research?
at slap and tickle, n.2
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 79: That’s the attitude, Captain [...] No more anxieties. Balls to the wall!
at balls to the wall(s) under balls, n.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 122: It’s a nice little bird [...] It’s an advanced jet trainer.
at bird, n.1
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 96: If this ain’t a bucket of worms!
at bucket of worms (n.) under bucket of..., n.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 165: Our old bugaboo—the guidance system.
at bugaboo, n.1
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 202: My mother spent years telling me how to fight off lecherous lovers. I wish she had spent more time telling me how to crank one up.
at crank, v.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 82: You got all crosswise with the press when you sent out the telegrams soliciting brain donors.
at crossways (adj.) under cross, adj.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 114: Damnation! I should have been on the alert for this.
at damnation!, excl.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 205: You’ve got us all scrambled back here like a dog’s breakfast.
at dog’s dinner, n.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 185: He roared, ‘Geronimo!’.
at Geronimo!, excl.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 83: I seem to have a penchant for attracting the greatest collection of goof-balls.
at goofball, n.2
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 201: I have a new hearse.
at hearse, n.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 76: No wonder he had warm britches for the girls.
at hot pants, n.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 135: She wanted the demonstration [...] where we could be alone and not heckled by a bunch of drunken kibitzers.
at kibitzer, n.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 137: I’m going to pop one of your solenoids.
at pop, v.1
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 243: Have we got time to be screwing around with channels?
at screw around (v.) under screw, v.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 227: We don’t get very shellacked this way.
at shellacked, adj.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 122: ‘[It] takes off like spit on a hot girdle.’ ‘That’s griddle.’ ‘Griddle.’.
at like shit off a shovel (adv.) under shit, n.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 109: Simmer down, old man.
at simmer, v.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 234: Hey, that was an out-of-the-world smooch.
at smooch, n.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 82: As a small oversight, you neglected to touch base with the base Information Office.
at touch base (v.) under touch, v.1
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 203: Don’t you shame on me, you limp-legged vegetable.
at vegetable, n.
[US] W.C. Anderson Adam M-1 201: ‘I have a new hearse.’ ‘Wild, man. What’s the color?’ ‘Fire-engine red.’ ‘Red, man? Weirdsville.’.
at weirdsville, n.
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