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Mr Dooley’s Opinions choose

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[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 104: I’ve surrindered, Cerveera. I’m done. I quit. I’m all in.
at all in, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 87: Th’ earnest youth in sarch iv a career in life ’ll be taught lyin’ individjally all’ in classes [...] the r-ready fake, th’ bouncer, th’ stiff, th’ con, th’ bunk, th’ poetic lie, th’ business lie, th’ lie imaginative.
at bouncer, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 171: Out here th’ floaters is all bums.
at bum, n.3
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 181: Ye take a man with small side whiskers, a long coat an’ a white choker.
at choker, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 102: First they was Hobson. He kissed a girl an’ ivrybody says: ‘Hang him. Kill th’ coal-scuttler.’.
at coal-scuttler (n.) under coal, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 80: ’T was th’ habit iv our joynt iv commerce f’r to be up with th’ cock an’ down to th’ damper befure th’ cashier come.
at damper, n.2
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 104: I’ve surrindered, Cerveera. I’m done. I quit. I’m all in.
at done, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 171: Down there the floater’ ar-re alll mimbers iv th’ Club.
at floater, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 4: Be th’ time th’ las’ thought is expinded, ye have a set iv as well-matched gambs as ye iver wore to a picnic.
at gam, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 111: I was r-readin’ th’ other day about a vote cast by a lot iv distinguished gazabs.
at gazabo, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 133: F’r wan man that goes to a wurruld’s fair to see how boots is made, they’se twinty goes to see th’ hootchy-kootchy.
at hootchy-kootchy, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 192: The jag is over. Manny a man that looked like a powdher pigeon a month ago looks like a hunchback today.
at jag, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Opinions 87: Th’ earnest youth in sarch iv a career in life ’ll be taught lyin’ individjally an’ in classes [...] the r-ready fake, th’ bouncer, th’ stiff, th’ con, th’ bunk, th’ poetic lie, th’ business lie, th’ lie imaginative.
at stiff, n.2
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