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[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 46: To think I had balled up everything by flashing a small-time act on a big-time stage.
at ball up, v.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ Coll. Stories (1994) 24: It seems he’s a big-time guy with a gun.
at big-time, adj.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ Coll. Stories (1994) 19: If we hadn’t listened to that piker Delaney, we’d be doing small big-time over the R. and W.!
at big time, n.1
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 30: ‘So you did your little bandit bit, did you?’ she said at last with keen irony.
at bit, n.1
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 40: What’s bitin’ you?
at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 39: Know anything about the calico?
at calico, n.1
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 47: Say, this mountain air is all the dope for hard sleeping, what?
at dope, n.1
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 24: She handed me the frosty eye.
at frosty, adj.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 18: Two dollars for ham and – in jay dump.
at ham and (n.) under ham, n.1
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 30: Of all the tin-horn sports, the ham-fat, small-time actors, you’re the prize bonehead.
at hamfat, adj.2
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 54: Ring off. Hang up.
at hang up, v.3
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 40: Take it easy, kid.
at take it easy under take it, v.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 18: Two dollars for ham and – in a jay dump.
at jay, adj.2
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 20: Men, is Snider Gulch going to be left behind by a jerk-water shanty village like Three Rivers?
at jerkwater, adj.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 65: I wish I was keen in the bean.
at keen, adj.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 54: Don’t try that line on me any more, Jerry.
at line, n.1
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 65: You’re talkin’ loco!
at loco, adv.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 39: She’s a looker, boys – she’s a regular Cleopatra.
at looker, n.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 19: Say, Jerry, you’re talking in your sleep. Wake up and get next to yourself!
at get next to (v.) under next (to), adj.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 47: Jest pack that shootin’-iron with you by way of a friend.
at pack, v.1
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 20: As parlor snakes, they aren’t in your class.
at parlor snake (n.) under parlor, n.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 30: You’re the prize bonehead. Honey, does that begin to percolate?
at percolate, v.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 31: Yep, I’m going to give this spiel to the papers [...] all scare heads.
at scarehead (n.) under scare, n.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 38: Are we goin’ to act like a bunch of short horns?
at shorthorn (n.) under short, adj.1
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 55: Take a slant at it, Jerry.
at take a slant (v.) under slant, n.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 48: The only law I know, is to play square with each other.
at play square (with) (v.) under square, adv.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Above the Law’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 28: You big, clumsy, square-headed, bat-eyed fool!
at squareheaded, adj.1
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Fixed’ in Coll. Stories (1994 ) 244: She had a kind of look for a second. Maybe she’s stringing me.
at string (along), v.
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Fixed’ Coll. Stories (1994) 249: What a beauty ... on the button! He can’t get up.
at on the button under button, n.1
[US] ‘Max Brand’ ‘Fixed’ in Coll. Stories (1994) 247: ‘Little David, play on your harp!’ shouted the ringside jester.
at play the harp (v.) under harp, n.1
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