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The Dud Avocado choose

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[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 151: To anyone coming in from the outside [...] wouldn’t we have seemed perfectly OK? Absolutely apple-pie American.
at apple pie, adj.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 79: We’re going to foul up our leadership like England did, as sure as God made little green apples.
at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 125: I returned to the table black and blue, two buttons ripped off my blouse and mad as a wet hen.
at ...a wet hen under mad as..., adj.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 74: Un véritable bag-of-wind, n’est-ce pas?
at bag of wind (n.) under bag, n.1
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 186: ‘I could hardly be mistaken for an Irishmnan with this nose, could I?’ he said, grinning eagerly and inviting us to study the old Norse beak.
at beak, n.2
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 221: I had some crazy idea of expiating my block-headedness once and for all by ‘going through with it’. It would teach me the lesson of my lifetime.
at blockheaded, adj.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 123: Some silly political scandal, bounced cheques, and all that sort of thing.
at bounce, v.2
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 208: Our old buddy-buddy the Contessa, that perennial glad rag doll.
at buddy-buddy, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 173: ‘Where does he come off giving me the bum’s rush?’ he steamed.
at bum’s rush, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 92: Listen you bums, this is no fly-by-night proposition.
at fly-by-night, adj.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 107: I thought we band of brothers were absolutely the cat’s pyjamas.
at cat’s pyjamas, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 183: So then Larry hit the ceiling and said he had to come along.
at hit the ceiling, v.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 92: You see if you don’t thank us till your dying day even if you don’t get a red sou for it.
at red cent, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 104: Zop-zop chewed his cud for a while and then made one of his few utterances.
at chew the cud, v.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 72: He’d chewed out that sad sack plenty.
at chew out, v.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 142: Teasing me about [...] my friendship with Lee Harrison (whom he found chi-chi and affected).
at chichi, adj.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 91: We’re not having anything to do with this effete chi-chi they’re trying to unload on us now.
at chichi, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 182: He really looks such a boring little man, doesn’t he, so utterly clueless in those revolting American clothes.
at clueless, adj.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 255: I mean Japan for a honeymoon. It’s so cool. It’s so chic.
at cool, adj.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 31: ‘The one who’s shy and polite?’ She nodded. ‘I’ll be darned.’.
at I’ll be darned! (excl.) under darn, v.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 30: You know all that razzle-dazzle about people being born in Original Sin and all that rot?
at razzle-dazzle, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 13: You’re a dead duck now, I told myself.
at dead duck, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 41: Was this going to be easier than I thought? Hot dog.
at hot dog, adj.1
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 134: I was fawned upon by the odd Stage-door Johnny.
at stage-door johnnie, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 209: Lila was drunk – or, if the doping part was true, she was high.
at dope, v.1
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 171: Stefan [...] is a great charmboat in a twinkling, grey-haired, pink and paunchy way. I just love sexy fat men.
at dreamboat, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 122: Faggotry here reaches almost pyrotechnical heights.
at faggotry, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 122: He arrived at Rollo’s side flapping his flippers into Rollo’s face.
at flipper, n.1
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 190: I gave him a hot-foot.
at hot foot, n.
[US] E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 66: John was a real, earnest, enthusiastic, gee-whiz tail-wagging prig of an American.
at gee-whiz, adj.
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