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(ref. to 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 205: We called the [...] Middletown men the ‘apple knockers’.at apple-knocker, n.
(ref. to 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 205: We called the [...] Middletown men the ‘apple knockers’. (con. 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 55: I’d say to myself, ‘Baloney, you’re going to make it!’ And I did.at baloney!, excl.
(con. 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 54: ‘Oh come on, Jim,’ I answered, ‘can that crap, you know it’s bad luck.’.at can, v.
(ref. to 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 109: Then he’d casually stroll over to this Chic Sales close to a hundred yards away.at chic sale, n.
(ref. to 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 205: We called the boys from Flushing [i.e. N.J.] the ‘clam diggers’.at clam-catcher (n.) under clam, n.1
(ref. to 1917–18) in Make the Kaiser Dance 243: We thought we’d be the cocks of the walk.at cock of the walk (n.) under cock, n.3
(con. 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 54: ‘Oh come on, Jim,’ I answered, ‘can that crap, you know it’s bad luck.’.at crap, n.1
(ref. to 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 36: When we were in combat all I had to do was relay a target back to Jim and it was good nigh, Fritzie. [Ibid.] 261: If Fritz could put a slug in one of those tanks, you were a goner.at Fritz, n.
(ref. to 1917-18) Make the Kaiser Dance 40: Those damn Senegalese, they threw a monkey wrench in our plans.at throw a (monkey) wrench into (the machinery) (v.) under monkey, n.
(ref. to 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 101: In World War I parlance, a man who was on the square was the real goods — in other words, a right guy [...] just let it suffice to say it meant he was ‘to the mustard’.at mustard, adj.
(ref. to 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 101: In World War I parlance, a man who was on the square was the real goods—in other words, a right guy.at right guy (n.) under right, adj.
(ref. to 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 260: He would read us some of the letters he was constantly getting from women all over France. They were sizzlers, all right.at sizzler, n.
(ref. to 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 71: We had this battalion commander, old Fritz Wise. [...] And was he ever an old salt, a real ‘sundowner’.at sundowner, n.
(con. 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 239: ‘Oh Christ,’ answered the top kick.at top kick (n.) under top, adj.
(con. 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 228: ‘Young man,’ he said, ‘we can pull a few wires here; you’ll be all right.’.at pull wires (v.) under wire, n.1
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