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The Judas Tree choose

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[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 167: Everybody and his brother!
at everybody and his cousin, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 98: Kiss my dusky butt!
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 13: I’ll lay odds he’s queer as a three-dollar bill!
at ...a three-dollar bill under queer as..., adj.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 40: You scared the living bejesus out of me!
at scare the bejazus out of (v.) under bejazus, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 99: You bet your boots I am!
at bet one’s boots (v.) under bet, v.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 17: You’re not fooling anybody, lover-man.
at lover-boy, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 13: ‘Holy Hannah!’ she squealed. ‘I just had a brainstorm!’.
at brainstorm (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 27: Around here, I’m known as bull o’ the woods.
at bull of the woods (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 76: I’d just wait and bushwhack you some dark night.
at bushwhack, v.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 27: Folks generally allow that I’m cock of the walk.
at cock of the walk (n.) under cock, n.3
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 78: Unless they get the high sign from me, you’d be cold meat the minute you hit the street.
at cold meat, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 93: The rubbery-legged gait of a man crocked to the gills.
at crocked, adj.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 13: I got back in time to see Frank Yeager take the drop.
at drop, n.1
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 109: I’ll eat your hat if he’s involved in these robberies.
at eat one’s hat, v.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 51: Carver’s been off his feed lately.
at off one’s feed (adj.) under feed, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 27: Close your flytrap and make tracks.
at flytrap (n.) under fly, n.3
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 70: Guess he recollects our last go-round.
at go-round, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 52: Great thundering cannonballs!
at great balls of fire! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 13: ‘Holy Hannah!’ she squealed. ‘I just had a brainstorm!’.
at Hannah, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 53: I’ve hocked my soul to put this show on the road!
at hock, v.1
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 51: Wish I had more time to jawbone.
at jawbone, v.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 128: Who was the jaybird they hung?
at jaybird, n.1
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 129: Yeager accused him of being the mastermind behind the robberies and the political kingfish of Virginia City.
at kingfish, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 71: You talk like he’s some tough lawdog.
at law-dog (n.) under law, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 50: I was a lawman myself once!
at lawman (n.) under law, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 42: ‘No soap,’ Starbuck said stubbornly.
at no soap, phr.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 110: Maybe that’s why the Pinks lose so many men.
at Pink, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 60: He thought a drink might wash away the cobwebs. A shot of popskull was known for its restorative effects.
at popskull, n.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 111: Find the man and squeeze him, and he’ll spill the beans.
at spill the beans (v.) under spill, v.
[US] M. Braun Judas Tree (1983) 12: Tonight he’d flaunted her before the society swells.
at swell, n.1
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