1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 91: God damn this lousy outfit [...] They don’t know their ass from a hot rock.at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 264: ‘Good ass-paper,’ said the men; ‘we’ve run out of The Daily’.at arse paper (n.) under arse, n.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 236: I was hoping to get hit [...] I’ve been wanting a nice little blighty one.at Blighty, n.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 198: It’s plain as mud; everything’s shaping up that way. It’s in the bag.at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 331: They were ‘fucking the dog,’ spending what money they had.at fuck the dog (and sell the pups) (v.) under dog, n.2
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 133: If France don’t come in now, we’re fucked ducks.at fucked duck (n.) under fucked, adj.1
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 85: ‘Haul your ashes,’ said an Italian-American.at haul ashes (v.) under haul, v.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 59: There was a place in town we called Sloppy Joe’s, where bootleg wine could be had out of hours.at sloppy joe’s, n.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 199: These’ll [i.e. condoms] keep you out of the rain.at keep out of the rain (v.) under keep, v.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 110: Pick up your feet; get the lead outta your ass.at get the lead out (v.) under lead, n.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 197: ‘They’re going to withdraw the volunteers from Spain.’ ‘No shit.’.at no shit!, excl.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 69: He is real dirty but hard as nails. ‘Great kid,’ the men say, ‘a tough nut.’.at tough nut, n.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 58: Each man carried a cigarette case in which he collected butts; his own or o.p.’s.at o.p.’s, n.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 87: When I saw Joe Ryan’s good squad coming down the line, was I scared pissless!at scared shitless (adj.) under scare, v.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 198: It’s plain as mud; everything’s shaping up that way. It’s in the bag.at shape (up) (v.) under shape, v.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 67: Yet even while they referred to any such bit of information as a ‘shithouse rumor’ they spread it even farther.at shithouse, adj.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 176: Diarrhea [...] was known familiarly to use ‘the shits.’.at shits, the, n.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 14: Earl had been a small-time pugilist; Hoover a Jack-of-all-trades and Garfield a hanger-on of the artistic world.at small-time, adj.
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 143: A comrade [...] came in stewed to the ears and raving mad.at stewed to the gills (adj.) under stewed, adj.1
1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 166: In all his political talks he favored the Spanish, ‘sucked up to them,’ the men would say.at suck up, v.