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Breakfast at Tiffany’s choose

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[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 65: Them two been living with some mean, no-count people a hundred miles east of Tulip.
at no-account, adj.
[US] T. Capote ‘A Christmas Memory’ in Breakfast at Tiffany’s 152: We can’t afford the made-in-Japan splendours at the five-and-dime.
at five and dime, n.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 12: It is her. Sure as I’m a man fit to wear britches.
at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 93: All the badges want from me is a couple of free grabs and my services as a state’s witness against Sally.
at badge, n.1
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 36: He’s written barrels of the most marvellous stories.
at barrel, n.1
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 21: I mean he’s sweet when he isn’t drunk, but let him start lapping up the vino, and oh God quel beast!
at beast, n.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 87: Are you starkers?
at stark staring bonkers, adj.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 75: She spent whole hausfrau afternoons slopping about in the sweatbox of her midget kitchen.
at sweat-box, n.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 85: Get them cotton-pickin’ hands off of me, you dreary, drivelling old bull-dyke.
at bull-dyke, n.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 90: It’s him to a T. Buttoned up and constipated.
at buttoned up, adj.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 38: Holly [...] caught me reading: Miss Holly Golightly, of the Boston Golightlys, making every day a holiday for the 24-carat Rusty Trawler.
at twenty-four carat, adj.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 89: Christ, I nearly cooled.
at cool, v.3
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 76: What could be prettier than a quite coony baby with bright green beautiful eyes.
at coon, adj.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 14: Dead. Or in a crazy house. Or married.
at crazy house (n.) under crazy, n.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 34: We modelled her along the Margaret Sullivan type, but she could pitch some curves of her own.
at curve, n.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 25: Of course I like dykes themselves. They don’t scare me a bit. But stories about dykes bore the bejesus out of me.
at dyke, n.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 98: ‘I said f-- off!’ she shouted.
at fuck off!, excl.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 91: But oh gee, golly goddamn [...] I did love him. The rat.
at golly!, excl.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 75: But, after all, he knows I’m preggers. Well, I am, darling. Six weeks gone.
at gone, adj.2
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 26: What’s gruesome about Thursday?
at gruesome, adj.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 77: A person ought to be able to marry men or women or – listen, if you came to me and said you wanted to hitch up with Man o’ War, I’d respect your feeling.
at hitch (up), v.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 90: Don’t be hoggy: read it aloud.
at hoggish, adj.
[US] T. Capote ‘House Of Flowers’ Breakfast at Tiffany’s 154: Well, I can’t sleep a hoot.
at hoot, n.2
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 87: I always knew she was a hop-hop-head.
at hophead, n.1
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 91: Touching? That square-ball jazz!
at jazz, n.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 76: I’ve always thrown out such a jazzy line.
at jazzy, adj.1
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 31: ‘Kid’s in the shower,’ he said.
at kid, n.1
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 58: I let him play kneesie under the table.
at kneesies, n.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 81: Trees, a lake with little-boy sailboats, statues went by licketysplit.
at lickety-split, adv.
[US] T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 35: You’re such a slob. You always nigger-lip.
at niggerlip (v.) under nigger, n.1
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