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[US] ‘Grant’s the Man’ Grant Songster 13: Johnny Bull don’t like our hero.
at John Bull, n.1
[US] ‘O Andy J’ Grant Songster 29: We know just how to take your speeches / And they are not worth a button.
at not worth a button (adj.) under button, n.1
[US] ‘Throw out the Flag boys!’ Grant Songster 28: Let them be leaders who never knew ‘cant’.
at cant, n.1
[US] ‘What are they thinking of?’ Grant Songster 6: What are the ‘Coppers’ thinking of?
at copperhead, n.
[US] ‘Is it for honest Loyalty?’ Grant Songster 9: Give fools their silks, and ‘Cops’ their wine.
at copperhead, n.
[US] ‘What are they thinking of?’ Grant Songster 6: Where are the ones that [...] were the first in time of need / To ‘cut sticks,’ and skedaddle.
at cut (one’s) stick(s), v.
[US] ‘Hurrah for Grant!’ Grant Songster 3: We’ve had a tailor at the White House / Who called himself ‘dead ducks’.
at dead duck, n.
[US] ‘A. Johnson is a Goner!’ Grant Songster 5: Johnson is a goner, / And Grant’s going to occupy the chair.
at goner, n.1
[US] ‘O Andy J’ Grant Songster 29: O Andy Judas, circle swinger, / It is you who ought to swing [...] within a hempen ring.
at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
[US] ‘Hurrah for Grant!’ Grant Songster 3: Now we mean to have a new man [...] And choose for pilot, Grant the tanner, / Who can tan traitor’s hide.
at tan someone’s hide (v.) under hide, n.
[US] ‘Grant’s the Man’ Grant Songster 13: Now’s the time that Uncle Sammy, / Plays on jews-harp, ‘Alabama.’.
at Uncle Sam, n.1
[US] ‘Hurrah for Grant!’ Grant Songster 3: He hasn’t been worth ‘shucks’.
at shucks, n.
[US] ‘O Andy J’ Grant Songster 29: The loyal people have got too knowing / To be taken with your ‘stuff’.
at stuff, n.
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