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Big Bonanza (1947) 278: He broke loose with: ‘Well, now, this beats my time!’.at beat someone’s time (v.) under beat, v.
Big Bonanza (1947) 278: He broke loose with: ‘Well, now, this beats my time!’. Big Bonanza (1947) 268: The majority of these saloons are what are called ‘bit houses’; that is, drinks of all kinds and cigars are one bit – twelve and one half cents.at bit, n.1
Big Bonanza (1947) 260: The smallest coin in use is the bit, or ten-cent piece, – sometimes spoken of as a ‘short bit,’ as not being twelve and one half cents, the ‘long bit’.at short bit (n.) under bit, n.1
Big Bonanza (1947) 260: The smallest coin in use is the bit, or ten-cent piece, – sometimes spoken of as a ‘short bit,’ as not being twelve and one half cents, the ‘long bit’.at long bit (n.) under bit, n.1
Big Bonanza (1947) 268: The majority of these saloons are what are called ‘bit houses’; that is, drinks of all kinds and cigars are one bit – twelve and one half cents.at bit house (n.) under bit, n.1
Big Bonanza (1947) 279: They fiddled and danced till they all got blind drunk.at blind drunk (adj.) under blind, adv.1
Big Bonanza (1947) 115: There are always some companies in ‘borrasca’ – out of luck, in barren rock – while others are in ‘bonanza’ – in good luck, working large bodies of rich ore.at bonanza, n.
Big Bonanza (1947) 157: Bunks were ranged along the sides of the room [...] and here editor, printers, proprietors, and all hands ‘bunked’.at bunk, v.2
Big Bonanza (1947) 285: He’s got more instink, that dog has [...] right in that ugly old cabeza of his, nor can be found in the heds of a whole plaza full of eddicated town dogs.at cabeza, n.
Big Bonanza (1947) 73: The donkey, called by everybody in that region, ‘The Washoe Canary’.at canary, n.1
Big Bonanza (1947) 289: The two of us could chaw up the town – we’d be a terror to it.at chaw, v.
Big Bonanza (1947) 276: They saw Blazer surrounded by half a dozen ‘Coasters,’ who were giving it to him right and left.at coaster, n.1
Big Bonanza (1947) 285: He’s jist the durndest dog out!at darnedest (adj.) under darned, adj.
Big Bonanza (1947) 278: All too durned high-toned!at darned, adv.
Big Bonanza (1947) 420: I’ll be doggoned if you ketch me goin’ down thataway! [...] Leave me and be doggoned to you!at I’ll be doggoned! (excl.) under doggone, v.
Big Bonanza (1947) 288: So this is the lop-eared cur of Calaveras who comes here to set up as a fighter?at lop-eared, adj.
Big Bonanza (1947) 284: Afferd – don’t git married! [...] If yer git married yer gone up the flume – busted out.at go up the flume (v.) under flume, n.
Big Bonanza (1947) 276: They saw Blazer surrounded by half a dozen ‘Coasters,’ who were giving it to him right and left.at give it to, v.
Big Bonanza (1947) 272: Didn’t I say there’d be a fearful row in here in about a minute? I knew it; and there you go!at there you go, phr.
Big Bonanza (1947) 422: It brought the goldarndest news that you ever did hear.at goldarned, adj.
Big Bonanza (1947) 276: His man had gone off to ‘heel himself,’ and there would soon be trouble.at heel, v.2
Big Bonanza (1947) 286: I’m a war-horse of the hills and a fighter from h--l!.at from hell under hell, n.
Big Bonanza (1947) 339: He may be knocked into a cocked hat.at knock into a cocked hat (v.) under knock into, v.
Big Bonanza (1947) 285: But let me come home full of tangle-leg, sheep-herder’s delight, and tarant’ler juice, and that is the durndest shamedest dog above ground.at tarantula-juice, n.
Big Bonanza (1947) 67: Newcomers who had no money prospected for leads or ‘jumped’ the claims of parties who had made locations.at jump, v.
Big Bonanza (1947) 285: But let me come home full of tangle-leg, sheep-herder’s delight, and tarant’ler juice, and that is the durndest shamedest dog above ground.at tangle-leg, n.
Big Bonanza (1947) 287: My fighter must be a regular lightning striker.at lightning, adj.
Big Bonanza (1947) 276: Blazer was a man who never felt at peace except when at war. [...] When unable to ‘mix’ in a ‘muss’ of some kind, he was the most miserable dog alive.at mix, v.
Big Bonanza (1947) 285: He’s jist the durndest dog out!at out, adv.2
Big Bonanza (1947) 339: They have kicked the bully Miner; they have ducked him in the ditch, but they can’t make him pungle.at pungle, v.
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