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Mr Dooley’s Philosophy choose

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[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Philosophy 25: A man bats me in th’ eye an’ I call f’r th’ polis.
at bat, v.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Philosophy 18: I think Tiddy Rosenfelt is all r-right an’ if he wants to blow his hor-rn lave him do it.
at blow one’s horn, v.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Philosophy 24: I’ll lave these la-ads roll each other as much as they plaze.
at roll, v.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Philosophy 219: ‘What ar-re ye goin’ to do f’r ye’ersilf, Snowball,’ says I — [...] I called him ‘Snowball,’ him bein’ as black as coal, d’ye see.
at snowball, n.2
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley’s Philosophy 39: If th’ Transvaal raypublic wud rather have a Dum-Dum bullet in its tum-tum thin grant to Englishmen th’ r-right to run th’ govermint.
at tum, n.
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