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Boots and Saddles choose

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[US] General Custer letter 10 Sept. in Custer Boots And Saddles (1999) 295: As one by one I dispose of each goodly-sized fragment of a huge onion, I remark, sotto voce, ‘Go it, old fellow! Make the most of your liberties!’.
at go it!, excl.
[US] Gen. Custer letter 23 Sept. in Custer Boots And Saddles (1999) 297: I knew that my family [...] was in advance somewhere, and, as the saying is, I just ‘lit out’.
at light out (v.) under light, v.1
[US] E. Custer Boots And Saddles 193: I intend to celebrate their return by going on a tremendous ‘bum’.
at on a/the bum under bum, n.4
[US] (con. 1865) in Eliz. Custer Boots and Saddles 11: The corp’ral is worse than the private, / The sergeant’s worse than the corp’ral, / The lieut’s worse than the sergeant, / And the captain is worse than them all.
at loot, n.2
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