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Young Man of Manhattan choose

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[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 142: I’ve been busy as a bird dog, up to now.
at busy as a bird dog (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 186: What a bender!
at bender, n.2
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 313: Ann’s all right, but she’s awfully blue.
at blue, adj.1
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 248: When I tell him I told you he’d gone to California, [...] he’ll brain me!
at brain, v.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 89: Don’t be mean. Let Toby break over, just this once [...] let him have a couple of drinks.
at break out, v.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 175: I borrowed it to butter a house detective.
at butter, v.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 204: ‘We click,’ he thought, approving her. They would get along.
at click, v.3
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 290: He was cock-eyed that night, cruising all over town.
at cruise, v.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 97: Dip your bill into that!
at dip one’s bill (v.) under dip, v.2
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 40: ‘On matrimony,’ Ann said, ‘I have theories’ [...] ‘Dish out a few’.
at dish (out), v.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 236: Listen, baby; I’m going to talk to you like a Dutch uncle.
at Dutch uncle, n.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 240: In the mornings after the evenings there were drinks that he had to have [...] There was the drink called eye-opener, and the one, or more, called hair of the dog.
at eye-opener, n.1
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 259: I’m going home [...] aren’t you? And grab about ten good hours of shut-eye?
at shut-eye, n.1
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 87: Ann telephoned Eunice Hay, who said she was ‘utterly frazzled’.
at frazzled, adj.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 347: ‘That went over big!’ he thought.
at go over big (v.) under go over, v.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 173: Didn’t have a prayer, my grandmother!
at my granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 232: Who gave a hoot what he looked like?
at give a hoot (v.) under hoot, n.2
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 322: Judas! What wouldn’t I give —.
at Judas Priest!, excl.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 93: Black band. Jungle band.
at jungle, adj.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 128: You certainly knocked him for a row of tall red totem poles.
at knock for a row of... (v.) under knock, v.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 20: Damn it! She’s got me licked!
at licked, adj.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 293: How are you, old man.
at old man, n.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 343: I’ve been as near off my noodle as a supposedly sane man can get.
at noodle, n.1
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 204: It needed his o.k., you see.
at OK, n.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 175: Well, toodle-oo.
at toodle-oo, phr.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 101: Well, the big palookas [...] why the hell don’t they look where they’re going.
at palooka, n.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 137: But let’s park, will you? I’m tired.
at park, v.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 17: Poppa in Porland.
at pop, n.3
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 113: She looked about seventeen years old, ‘and,’ thought Toby with fond paternal amusement, ‘very rah-rah’.
at rah-rah, adj.
[US] K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 102: Of all the dumb shines I ever saw in my life!
at shine, n.2
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