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[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 40: ‘It’s all over but the shooting,’ Mike said.
at all over bar the shouting, phr.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 64: I’m half-horse, half-alligator, and half-snapping turtle!
at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 40: You sure as shootin’ can shoot.
at sure as shooting under sure as..., phr.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 174: Paul always gave any cook as many cookees to help as he needed.
at cookee, n.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 64: They had a shooting match that was a lolapaloosa.
at lallapaloosa, n.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 47: I’m a tornado, a cyclone and a snag all rolled into one, and fight’s my middle name! I fight against all creatures, human and inhuman.
at middle name (n.) under middle, adj.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 116: They got in the habit of calling it a ‘muss’.
at muss, n.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 93: ‘My stars and comets!’ thought Davy.
at my stars!, excl.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 55: Blaze away, and take care you don’t elevate your piece too low.
at piece, n.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 2: Christopher didn’t care a snippet whether ringtailed roarers like Mike Fink and John Henry [...] had a country to be heroes of.
at ringtailed snorter, n.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 177: ‘Say,’ Paul said, ‘you’re a ripsnorter. You’ve got a musical screech; you’re smart; you’re strong.’.
at rip snorter, n.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 47: I’m a regular screamer from the Ohio, the Mississippi and all the streams that run into them!
at screamer, n.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 1: From the beginning, we Americans have had a better stock of snarling, snorting, rock-ribbed hardships than any other country.
at snorting, adj.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 40: You rile a man with your tall talk.
at tall talk (n.) under tall, adj.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 2: But where in thunderation is Japan?
at thunderation, n.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 161: This uppity young tenderfoot that had got himself educated at Yale.
at uppity, adj.
[US] W. Blair Tall Tale America 4: Unless you were a whiz at zigzagging [...] you’d probably wind up at the wrong place.
at whiz, n.3
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