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Fairy Tales of New York choose

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[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. II iii: mott.: She’s out of it for keeps. how.: You mean she threw a seven?
at chuck a seven, v.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. III i: Now why don’t you two be friends and instead of wasting a lot of hot air on each other, use this room the way it’s supposed to be used.
at hot air, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. I i: O.K. You don’t mind if we wait a few minutes. Until some of these eager beavers get off this pier.
at eager beaver, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. III i: That’s how I got that stomach you call a beer barrel.
at beer barrel (n.) under beer, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. IV i: Policemen were parked sitting in their car, in their nice blue uniforms waiting for speeders [...] Ha, ha, you’ve never seen such bellies in blue.
at boys in blue, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. I i: And I’m on the pier pushing a cart where every guy’s after a fast buck.
at fast buck, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. III i: He says if he ever gets you in the ring he’ll kill you for some of the other things you said. He gets really burned up.
at burned up, adj.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. IV i: She still thinks the guy who walked out on her is something. When he’s a phoney. A phoney cheapskate.
at cheapskate, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. II ii: Cornelius, as a personal favour I’m asking you right now to take this job. I know everything’s going to click.
at click, v.3
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. III i: You know that’s the first time Cornelius Christian’s ever hit the deck.
at hit the deck (v.) under deck, n.1
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. II iii: Steve, he’s got something even better, didn’t want to flash it.
at flash it (v.) under flash, v.1
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. II iii: And don’t think I planned this either, getting you up here with Mr How to give you a working over.
at working-over, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. I i: Helen could never pack things. I told her she was sloppy, why don’t you fold things up?
at sloppy, adj.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. IV i: But didn’t you know, that peach is really the snazz.
at snazz, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. II ii: It was swell.
at swell, adj.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Fairy Tales of N.Y. I i: I was a wildcatter in Texas and then became manager of an oil field.
at wildcatter, n.
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