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[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 134: ‘My sakes!’ ses the colonel. He ses: ‘Well, well, well,’ he ses, those two babies?’ [...] ‘they deserve t’ be major generals,’ he ses.
at baby, n.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 74: I got skeared when they was all a-shootin’ b’hind me an’ I run t’ beat all.
at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 91: It’s jest a damn good belt on th’ head, an’ nothin’ more.
at belt, n.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 131: Oh, thunder, MacChesnay, what an awful bull you made of this thing!
at pull a bull (v.) under bull, n.2
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 68: I was out there [...] An’, Lord, what a circus! An’, b’jiminey, I got shot.
at circus, n.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 29: They’ve licked us about every clip up to now.
at clip, n.1
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 107: ‘Whoop-a-dadee,’ said a man, ‘here we are! Everybody fightin’.’.
at whoop-de-doo!, excl.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 107: You always talk like a dog-hanged parson.
at doggone, adj.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 20: They persistently yelled, ‘Fresh fish!’ at him.
at fish, n.1
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 93: We’ll have yeh fixed up in jest a minute.
at fix up, v.1
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 88: By ginger, it hurt like thunder.
at by ginger! (excl.) under ginger, n.3
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 96: Gosh-dern it! [...] you’re the hangdest man I ever saw!
at hang, v.2
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 115: It’ll be hell t’ pay stoppin’ them.
at hell to pay under hell, n.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 66: Your fellers ’ll run like hell when they onct hearn a gun.
at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 22: They’re raising blazes all over camp.
at raise hell (v.) under hell, n.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 134: That’s Flemin’, an’ he’s a jim-hickey.
at jim-hickey, n.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 112: ‘Hot work! Hot work!’ cried the lieutenant deleriously.
at hot, adj.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 88: Jack was a-lookin ahead all th’ time tryin’ t’ see th’ Johnnies comin’.
at johnny, n.1
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 22: It might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run.
at whole kit and caboodle (n.) under whole kit, n.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 69: There’s a batt’ry comin’ helitywhoop down th’ road.
at lickety-split, adv.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 105: B’jiminey, we’re generaled by a lot ’a lunkheads.
at lunkhead, n.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 41: Bill wasn’t scared either. No, sir!
at no sir!, excl.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 98: We’ll be at th’ rebs in less’n an hour.
at Reb, n.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 134: ‘My sakes!’ ses the colonel.
at sakes!, excl.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 94: Shet up an’ go on t’ sleep.
at shut up!, excl.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 30: I’m not going to skedaddle.
at skedaddle, v.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 21: ‘Thunder!’ said the youth.
at thunder!, excl.
[US] S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 148: He’s th’ best off’cer in this here reg’ment. He’s a whale.
at whale, n.
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