1944 W. Blair Tall Tale America 40: ‘It’s all over but the shooting,’ Mike said.at all over bar the shouting, phr.
1944 W. Blair Tall Tale America 64: I’m half-horse, half-alligator, and half-snapping turtle!at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
1944 W. Blair Tall Tale America 40: You sure as shootin’ can shoot.at sure as shooting under sure as..., phr.
1944 W. Blair Tall Tale America 174: Paul always gave any cook as many cookees to help as he needed.at cookee, n.
1944 W. Blair Tall Tale America 64: They had a shooting match that was a lolapaloosa.at lallapaloosa, n.
1944 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.
1944 W. Blair Tall Tale America 55: Blaze away, and take care you don’t elevate your piece too low.at piece, n.
1944 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.
1944 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.
1944 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.
1944 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.
1944 W. Blair Tall Tale America 40: You rile a man with your tall talk.at tall talk (n.) under tall, adj.
1944 W. Blair Tall Tale America 161: This uppity young tenderfoot that had got himself educated at Yale.at uppity, adj.
1944 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