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Father of the Man choose

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[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: You could be really vile, like he was, with high-society British quiffs, but couldn’t bad-mouth a prostitute.
at badmouth, v.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: He bet the farm nearly every time and died with enough happy cabbage in his pockets to feed the First Army.
at bet the farm (v.) under bet, v.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: He bet the farm nearly every time and died with enough happy cabbage in his pockets to feed the First Army.
at cabbage, n.2
[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: He went out on skirt patrol pretty regular while we were stationed at Stover. Just couldn’t resist the light chassis.
at chassis, n.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: ‘Balls,’ Conklin explained, ‘sometimes referred to as nuts, gonads, stones, rocks, cods, cullions, bollocks, family jewels, or – for the learned among us – testicles or testes.’.
at cods, n.1
[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: ‘Balls,’ Conklin explained, ‘sometimes referred to as nuts, gonads, stones, rocks, cods, cullions, bollocks, family jewels, or – for the learned among us – testicles or testes.’.
at cullions, n.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: ‘Smartass,’ said Lopez. ‘Thinks he’s hot shit,’ said Stewart.
at hot-shit, adj.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: Weaver, a scrawny kid from Rhode Island, weakest guy in the platoon, last in everything, a bit lacy – if you know what I mean.
at lacy, adj.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: You could be really vile, like he was, with high-society British quiffs, but couldn’t bad-mouth a prostitute.
at quiff, n.1
[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: ‘Balls,’ Conklin explained, ‘sometimes referred to as nuts, gonads, stones, rocks, cods, cullions, bollocks, family jewels, or – for the learned among us – testicles or testes.’.
at stone, n.1
[US] (con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: Weaver, a scrawny kid from Rhode Island, weakest guy in the platoon [...] a bit lacy – if you know what I mean. We called him Wimpy.
at wimpy, adj.
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