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Four Brothers in Blue choose

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[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 83: A show of greenbacks procured a man’s discharge from the service as easy as tumbling off a log.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 11 Dec. 193: Bob is [...] as happy as a clam to-night.
at ...a clam under happy as..., adj.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 15–16 Nov. 163: We found him a queer genius in his ideas, and in politics he beats the Dutch.
at beat the Dutch, v.
[US] R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 23 Aug. 77: Two of us [...] extracted the ‘benzine’ from his pocket.
at benzine, n.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 19 Sept. 119: Yes, you bummers, we do the fighting [...] Go the rear, you ‘wormcrushers!’.
at bummer, n.3
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 15 Dec. 205: Each man [...] industriously chewing the cud of bitter reflection.
at chew the cud, v.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 28 Dec. 215: It would hush forever those vile home croakers who ‘knew it would be so’.
at croaker, n.1
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 26 Sept. 134: He is not in the least upper crust.
at upper crust, adj.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 17 Sept. 109: They ‘dipped into’ that fellow and beat him shockingly.
at dip into (v.) under dip, v.2
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 19 Sept. 119: We do the fighting and leave dead cavalrymen for the ‘dough boys’ to pick up.
at doughboy, n.1
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 19 Aug. 82: What we first thought was the ground itch [...] proved to our uninitiated recruits to be the genuine and unmistakeable ‘greyback’.
at grayback, n.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 20 Aug. 83: A show of greenbacks procured a man’s discharge from the service as easy as tumbling off a log.
at greenback, n.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 28 Dec. 215: If I could only meet ‘Johnny Reb’ at the point of the bayonet at close quarters.
at Johnny Reb (n.) under johnny-, pfx
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 24 Aug. 84: I do not complain with a mean tone; I lump it all.
at lump, v.1
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 18 Dec. 208: We bivouacked all day Monday on the wharves, eating flap-jacks and raising the ‘Old Nick’.
at raise Ned (v.) under Ned, n.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 18 Dec. 207: We had to run like the ‘Old Nick’ to come into line.
at Old Nick, n.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 17 Aug. 79: Bob gave him a pelter that knocked him down.
at pelter, n.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 24 Oct. 146: Pepper [...] makes our salt horse very palatable.
at salt horse (n.) under salt, n.3
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 24 Aug. 84: I lump it all, and don’t care a snap.
at not care a snap (v.) under snap, n.2
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 14 Sept. 106: He turned his angry face toward the elongated ‘Tar-heeler.’.
at tarheel, n.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 14 Sept. 106: Our Colonel, drawled out in the usual ‘Tar-heel’ vernacular.
at tarheel, adj.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 19 Sept. 119: Yes, you bummers, we do the fighting and leave the dead cavalrymen for the ‘dough boys’ to pick up. Go the rear, you ‘wormcrushers!’.
at worm-crusher (n.) under worm, n.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 4 May 253: Becoming enraged, and forgetting his orders [...] he [an Irishman] broke out into several loud ‘Bocklishes’ [sic].
at ballocks!, excl.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 23 Jan. 227: For pure unadulterated demoralization, Kilkenny fighting and downright cussedness, ‘this took the cake.’.
at take the cake, v.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 19 Jan. 225: Lest we ‘cave in’ on this campaign, I write just before starting.
at cave, v.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 18 Jan. 224: Bob and LeRoy are frying ‘flippers’ (flap-jacks).
at flipper, n.2
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 2 June 277: Danger of being gobbled by gorills.
at gorill, n.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 2 Feb. 233: I would do all I could to discourage it, and even get them ‘huffy’.
at huffy, adj.
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 17 Jan. 222: The company is so small that it takes what few there are left to do guard duty and nigger work.
at nigger work (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] in R.G. Carter Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 4 May 253: He was a short, sawed-off little Irishman, not much over five feet five inches.
at sawed-off, adj.
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