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Reinhart in Love choose

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[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 19: Reinhart derived nothing but an urge to escape, by any means less final than the Dutch act.
at Dutch act, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 46: And ‘action,’ that’s action, which tonight is craps in the second-floor front over Honey Dove’s Turkish Lounge.
at action, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 122: I ain’t got a brown bare-ass penny I can call my own.
at bare-ass, adj.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 37: Ensared in some Aunt Jemima’s circus-tent bloomers.
at Aunt Jemima, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 97: Go get your ball and chain and your deductions.
at ball and chain (n.) under ball, n.1
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 98: The present client is the black sheep, the foul ball, of the moneybags clan.
at foul ball, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 128: There you are! [...] The balloon is going up.
at when the balloon goes up under balloon, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 36: Balls to that.
at balls to...! (excl.) under balls!, excl.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 99: In the eyes of the Big Boy upstairs we are all even as children.
at big boss, the, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 194: Try as he would to get at least some of the old snottiness from her in lieu of sex, he drew a blank.
at draw a blank (v.) under blank, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 151: I can’t give you no more straight salary than twenty a week, and don’t try to bleed me for better.
at bleed, v.1
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 262: Bluenose Reinhart [...] slept very late next morning [...] in his chaste bed.
at bluenose, n.1
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 43: You’ll have to go to that boogie joint [...] and order ptomaine goulash.
at boogie, adj.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 36: A good bracing now and then puts a man into a relationship with the high powers.
at brace, v.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 177: As long as we’re in Dutch anyway, might as well do it up brown.
at do up brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 35: The truth [...] is that things are exactly as they appear, and symbols are the bunk.
at bunk, n.2
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 157: By tomorrow I might have the necessary cabbage.
at cabbage, n.2
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 23: ‘What’s that?’ ‘I never chew my cabbage twice.’.
at boil one’s cabbage twice (v.) under cabbage, n.2
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 131: Ah dint come here to be called out of my name.
at call someone out of their name (v.) under call, v.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 45: Say, Captain [...] you looking for action?
at captain, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 152: He led Reinhart to his own swivel chair and forced him into it. ‘How do you feel in the catbird seat, boy?’.
at in the catbird seat under catbird, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 80: Already starting to gloat over the goods we’ll leave behind. Can’t wait till we cash in our chips.
at cash in one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 145: ‘It’s as clear as mud.’ Meaning, rather, as glass, ice, cellophane, spring water, etc.
at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 401: What I need is a piece of cock.
at cock, n.4
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 84: Congrats, sir! King-size vol one reaches you in Friday’s mail.
at congrats, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 130: Furnishing the orator with disguise, bottle of Dutch nerve, and extravagant encouragement.
at Dutch courage, n.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 47: ‘Action?’ asked Reinhart. ‘Jelly roll,’ answered the Maker. ‘I got me a stable of cows.’.
at cow, n.1
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 127: I cribbed most of that [i.e. a speech] from Henry Five, by William Shakespeare.
at crib, v.2
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 124: I could cruise a few saloons, but I tell you, don’t look for much.
at cruise, v.
[US] T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 35: Crums like Hector and Willard.
at crum, n.
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