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Meanwhile, Back at the Front choose

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[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 53: I’m due to get relieved as chief bottle washer around here.
at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 254: New York is screaming for a wrap-up. It’ll be my ass if I don’t get it in.
at be one’s arse under arse, n.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 177: They take themselves too damned seriously. Missions. Dedicated. Big hairy-assed purposes.
at hairy-arsed, adj.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 37: I’m going to be ass-deep in rolling heads before I’m through here.
at ass deep under ass, n.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 102: What are you, a wise ass?
at wise-ass, n.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 177: We sure hung their asses, didn’t we?
at hang someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 271: ‘Go chew on a chitlin,’ Carson said gloomily.
at go and bark up a tree! (excl.) under bark, v.2
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 10: I’ll be dipped in shit. I’ll be the only man in history got a Purple Heart on the way to a whorehouse.
at well, I’ll be dipped in shit!, excl.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 212: Moon was in no mood for bush-beating.
at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 134: The old beavered bastard can’t even listen.
at beaver, n.1
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 35: You bet your ass it’s a lot of readers.
at bet one’s (sweet) ass (v.) under bet, v.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 219: They bitched and moaned and bellyached.
at bitch and moan (v.) under bitch, v.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 108: He was just a little bitty guy.
at bitty, adj.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 216: ‘Did she bounce in the bunker?’ ‘General,’ Riley said, licking his lips and looking dreamy, ‘did you ever step on a land mine?’.
at bounce, v.1
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 180: Overshadowed by breastworks of such magnitude and design as to stagger credulity.
at breastworks, n.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 255: Major Tunkett [...] had instructed a signal corporal who was bucking for sergeant to relay duplicates of all messages.
at buck for, v.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 200: I’m going to bust you so far you’ll have to climb a tree to see a buck private’s ass!
at buck private, n.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 20: You don’t think you’re going to buffalo these crooks with that hand, do you?
at buffalo, v.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 42: Moon will love that bush of yours.
at bush, n.1
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 59: If he keeps it up he’ll get canned.
at canned, adj.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 94: You’re a real forty-eight-carat son of a bitch, aren’t you?
at twenty-four carat, adj.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 106: If you take a walk, somebody cranks one off at you.
at crank off (v.) under crank, v.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 66: I will positively under no circumgoddamnstances have it.
at god-damn, adj.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 151: It must have been a jim-dandy.
at jim dandy, n.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front 131: Sterling stuff, these devil dogs.
at devil dogs (n.) under devil, n.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 110: God, the overhead around here is something fierce.
at fierce, adv.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 22: I am an artist, not a goddamn grease monkey.
at grease monkey (n.) under grease, n.1
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 13: The squad of marines reached the Happy Wagon.
at happy wagon (n.) under happy, adj.
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 134: She pushed a dung barrow / Singing ‘Dung balls and honey / All fresh from the throne’.
at honey, n.1
[US] G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 204: Why, with all the horsing around you did in that damned jeep of yours, you never hit one lousy little land mine.
at horse around (v.) under horse, v.
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