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[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ Doesticks, What He Says 259: Napoleon spends most of his time playing penny ‘ante’ with the three Graces.
at penny ante, adj.
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ Doesticks, What He Says 169: Crew all on a ‘bender’ in the engine room, firemen all drunk on the boiler deck.
at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ [Mortimer Neal Thomson] Doesticks, What He Says 128: Bull Dogge offers to bet his hat, she don’t know a cabbage from a new cheese.
at bet one’s buttons (v.) under bet, v.
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ [M.N. Thomson] Doesticks, What He Says 124: Everything looked so grandly gingerbreadly that I hesitated about going in. Little boy in the corner (barefooted, with a letter in the post office) told us to ‘go in’ and called us ‘lemons’.
at lemon, n.
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ [M.N. Thomson] Doesticks, What He Says 124: Everything looked so grandly gingerbreadly that I hesitated about going in. Little boy in the corner (barefooted, with a letter in the post office) told us to ‘go in’ and called us ‘lemons’.
at there’s a letter in the post office under letter, n.
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ [Mortimer Neal Thomson] Doesticks, What He Says 124: Everything looked so grandly gingerbreadly that I hesitated about going in. Little boy in the corner (barefooted, with a letter in the post office) told us to ‘go in’ and called us ‘lemons’.
at there’s a letter in the post office under post office, n.
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ Doesticks, What He Says 169: Said he thought I’d do, and told the rest to put me through the sprouts.
at sprout, n.2
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ Doesticks, What He Says 230: After Macbeth has murdered Duncan, and Macduff has finished Macbeth, they all three take a ‘whisky skin,’ and agree to go fishing next Sunday.
at whisky-skin (n.) under whisky, n.
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