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[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 23: All those civilians and 4Fs have put you up to this.
at 4F, n.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 229: Nevertheless she is reckless and a spendthrift and doesn’t keep the house clean and is a con artist and exploits me.
at con-artist, n.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 259: I promised you backsheesh, old man, and here are the papers for the jeep, made over to you.
at baksheesh, n.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 162: There was an all-out, slam-bang, grand salute of the guns.
at slam-bang, adj.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 7: Some of the discontinued bills of thirty years ago turned up, the big yellowbacks.
at bill, n.3
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 49: What the blast is going on?
at blast, n.2
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 165: Why were my bones molten in those great cathedrals of France so that I couldn’t stand it and had to booze up and swear at Lily?
at booze up, v.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 44: I’ve always been a sort of Africa buff.
at buff, n.2
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 133: I didn’t have the strength to take this leap. I was too bushed.
at bushed, adj.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 309: He was no cold-storage, Ivy League, button-down, broken-hipped civilian like you.
at button-down, adj.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 298: ‘I’ll fix your wagon,’ I promised him in silence.
at fix someone’s wagon (v.) under fix, v.1
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 38: I was fuddled.
at fuddled, adj.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 111: Man, don’t be in such a funk.
at funk, n.2
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 184: That big Henderson finally got his [...] He probably bullied some natives and they stabbed him.
at get one’s (v.) under get, v.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 178: A powerful ambition had me and I was a goner.
at goner, n.1
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 57: If you mobilized the whole place and everybody pitched in – gung-ho!
at gung-ho, adv.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 71: She was all gussied up.
at gussy up, v.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 316: The Canadian hicks were rejoicing underneath with red faces.
at hick, n.1
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 15: Hell! How can you live in this stinking joint?
at joint, n.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 46: I felt I was entering the past – the real past, no history or junk like that.
at junk, n.1
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 119: She may have been a hot lay once, as she claims.
at lay, n.2
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 217: I wish you loads of luck.
at loads of, n.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 120: Let’s jump off the train and paint the town red.
at paint the town red, v.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 180: I’m going to give you the straight poop about myself, as straight as I can make it.
at poop, n.4
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 133: If they wanted to hang a rap of sacrilege on me, I was guilty all right.
at hang a rap on (v.) under rap, n.1
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 229: I felt like [...] snoozing, anything except tackling such hard material.
at snooze, v.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 229: I was on the spot.
at on the spot (adj.) under spot, n.3
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 12: Damn these weak drunks! [...] I can’t stand these clowns who go out in public as soon as they get swacked to show how broken-hearted they are.
at swacked (up), adj.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 23: Those twerps. Don’t they ever eat pork?
at twerp, n.
[US] S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 29: You last husband went to President Roosevelt’s prep school – watchumajigger.
at whatchamacallit, n.
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