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[US] Christian Monitor 15 147: I think you’re a chicken-hearted little goose, a whimpering baby just now, but at bottom you really have some sand in your craw.
at have sand in one’s craw (v.) under sand, n.1
[US] H. Caine Christian 504: Ah, that’s another pair of shoes altogether, dear.
at that’s another pair of shoes under shoe, n.
[US] Christian Science Monitor 22 Nov. 15: The Cowboys may have as hard a time as the Tigers did in stopping bounding Bob Hudgens, Bear halfback, when scores are within boarding-house reach.
at boarding-house reach, n.
[US] Christian Science Monitor 20 Aug. 3/4: Barnstorm, to fly about from town to town taking passengers up for a small sum [OED].
at barnstorm, v.
[US] Christian Science Monitor 25 Apr. 8/2: A Tuckahoe is a Virginian [DA].
at Tuckahoe, n.
[US] Christian Science Monitor 1 Mar. 10/4: The club will make its presentation at its football jamboree at the close of each grid season [DA].
at jamboree, n.
[US] Christian Science Monitor 14 Dec. 1: Some call it ‘infotainment,’ meaning information that is entertaining. Others call it ‘docu-schlock’.
at schlock, n.
[US] Christian Science Monitor 27 Feb. 🌐 So there was a young man who lived in South Boston, Mass., and he was as Irish as Paddy Murphy’s pig.
at as Irish as Paddy Murphy’s pig under Irish, adj.
[US] Christian Science Monitor 30 Apr. n.p.: I remember Leroy screaming, ‘Crackers, Mr. Bob, crackers!’ just as vividly as Wences’ fans recall, ‘S’OK? S’awright!’.
at awright!, excl.
[US] Christian Science Monitor 31 Dec. 13: But a chorus of boosters [...] say the area will retain a lot of its unique character.
at boost, v.1
[US] Christian Science Monitor 30 Dec. n.p.: The exclamation ‘Cowabunga!’ appears to have originated with Chief Thunderthud on ‘The Howdy Doody Show’ in 1954. It passed into surfing slang as an exclamation of triumph in the 1960s, then became a rallying cry for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the 1980s and more recently one of Bart’s catchwords on ‘The Simpsons’.
at cowabunga!, excl.
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